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Like daylight savings time, school vacation during summer is part of a white European society that was almost completely agrarian based.Public and private schools, including colleges and universities should close during the months with the most inclement weather. In most of the USA, this is winter. In other parts of the world, this is monsoon season or when temperatures are dangerously high. Schools closing during these times would solve a lot of problems and resources.
If schools were closed during winter months, this would also coincide with Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and other holidays during November, December and January. It would smooth out the demand caused by a lot people traveling at the same time during very small windows of time.
In the USA, schools being open during summer would still allow plenty of time after school for kids to enjoy the outdoors since summer days have longer periods of daylight.
Non-essential businesses could and should also coordinate slow downs and/or highly flexible schedules and business hours during winter or other months when inclement weather is a factor.
It is foolish for humans to continue to insist on being the only creature who thinks it can still do 99% of what it wants to do all year long.
Except for humans, all other creatures adjust to the weather and do not attempt to do the same things in all kinds of weather.
Schools have not taught us how to weather the weather. Instead of teaching us how to critically think and lead societies to closing schools during inclement weather months, schools have closed our minds.
