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GeekyBearyesterday at 9:09 PM1 replyview on HN

It's worth remembering that schools in American farming regions would shut down during planting and harvest seasons just 100 years ago.

Large families were your source of farm labor.


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shimmanyesterday at 10:01 PM

Reminder that universal public high school education wasn't obtained in the US until the 1940s.

Large families were your source of labor because you never given a chance to make a better life for yourself.