What is this country coming to.
Directly a bit of snow falls the schools shut down.
I went to school in the fifties and never once was the school shut (worse luck I felt at the time). We had gruesome outside toilets but that didn't make any difference we still went to school. The winters then were much worse than now.
Following my theme on carbon footprints, of course most children and the teachers came from the local area and walked to school.
I think it is ludicrous these days that people travel miles and miles to work causing added polution plus more excuses (some genuine some not) on why they cannot get to work.
They don't shut the shops because there is snow, or hospitals and most private companies expect you to get to work, why are schools so different.
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My daughter's suburban school wasn't closed - but she said she might as well not have bothered to turn up as so few other pupils did. The teachers just wasted a day because there were so few pupils there so it wasn't worth teaching proper lessons. Why?! There was only a little bit of snow! They'll be staying away if it rains next...
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Hi All,
My kids went to school yesterday as their school was open, but the kids next door didn't because their school was closed because of the weather, even though the two schools are only a couple of hundred metres apart, if that. They are both in the same county.
I think Orangeblossom, in times past the Governments have told us to get on our bikes and search out work, which many did in high levels of unemployment. People in need of work/money will travel if they have too. Homeworking is now becoming more commonplace, so maybe in a few years things will be different.
Probably, IMHO, most people hate travelling miles to work, wasting resourses and their own time. I know I would much rather work a mile or so from home, so I could walk.
I don't really have a problem with the schools closing because of weather, but feel sorry for those parents who have to find childcare at short notice. Soon to be a problem for me, which I'm not looking forward to.
Peppermint
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[&:]I went to school in the 70's/80's and remember school being closed because of the weather
Love
Amy
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I went to school in the 80s/90s and we had to travel on a school bus for8 miles up and down some very dodgy hills but I don't remember the school ever been closed for bad weather, although we on the bus didn't always manage to get there[&:]
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ORIGINAL: Amelia Jane
[&:]I went to school in the 70's/80's and remember school being closed because of the weather
Love
Amy
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My children went to school around the same time as yourself and yes they were always being sent home. Usually because of the `toilet` situation. Why I don't know, as their toilets were inside the building unlike the ones we had at school.
On a slightly different tack, I remember being asked to come and get my son from school once, because he had a bleeding wart on his finger......why not put a plaster on it?
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I went to school in the 70's/80's too.
I lived in a village in Lancashire and some years the village was snowed in. Luckily there was a haulage company who needed to get lorries out and had equipment to dig out the snow. So, by lunch time we would be back at school, although we had to travel through what were like bob-sleigh runs!!! very scary, cars waltzing down the road.
Peppermint 😀
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Yes, I can remember my primary school closing for a few days in the winter of 1962/63, but that was after weeks of snow and freezing weather when heating fuel ran out. There were power cuts too - and I can remember my mum helping me with my times tables by candlelight (contrary to what my daughters believe, we didn't ALWAYS live by candlelight when I was a child!).
That really was an extraordinary winter. My memory, which could be faulty, is that the snow began just after Christmas and was still there weeks later. We moved house that April, to a house without central heating, and it was freezing even then. They certainly didn't close my school because of one light (and well forecast) fall of snow!
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Yes, Supersub, the winter of 62/63 was a very bad winter - my mum always told me it was the worst in her living memory and it particularly sticks out in her mind because my sister was born in February 1963.
Lesley
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I went to school in the 1960's/1970's and the schools were never shut, no matter what. Pupils were expected to turn up, and if they did not, woe betide them. It bred a generation with a 'can do' attitude. If the wusses who run schools nowadays can't be bothered to turn up to run a school, despite snow warnings they've had for a week, is it any wonder that our kids are being turned into blinking cissies, too scared of their own shadows?
I blinking ask you......:eek:
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I walked pasted a school today & it was there lunch break, all playing outside & not one had a coat on, ok so it wasn't snowing but it was so cold & snow on the ground.
No wonder the kids get poorly
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Hi, I am lucky enough to be a homeworker and have kinda teenage children, we had an evenings notice of the potential school closure, the buses would never have got out of their depot. As it turned out the snow did fall altho not as badly here as predicted, but the school shut just the same.
My boyz had the best time, up and out early, as usual, but in the snow,built a snowman, had a snowball fight, had rosy cheeks a cooked breakfast and then put on a change of clothes and went out to do the same againwith their friends. It was such a treat to be given the snow and the day off, they went to school with a 🙂 on Friday and got back to their work quite refreshed.
I thought it was quite wonderful!!
j
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i feel that schools shut to easily these days when i was a child they only shut cos of the power cuts we went to school on certin days and we were given stacks of homework to do and we had to do it or there would have been trouble schools were stricter then kids had more respect for their teachers
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i went to school in the 80's and we were never closed because of the snow.. mind you, i was one of the lucky 'bus children' and we always got sent home if the roads were getting too bad.. i remember the kids who lived local being very unimpressed by this..;)
personally, i don't see what all the fuss is about.. back then we had proper winters and it snowed really hard.. we used to have 3ft snow drifts and it used to last for days and days.. it makes me laugh when i hear them on the news warning people about the supposed 'big freeze'.. ok, so it has been freezing but there's only been an inch of snow..[:'(]
as for the schools up here, well, my daughters didn't get a day off.. lorena complained that she wasn't allowed to play outside though.. apparantley the teachers had kept them indoors so that they wouldn't get wet.. (wouldn't get wet?[:-]i ask you?) disgusted by this her class got a petition together and the whole school went into protest.. needless to say the teachers didn't back down so when the kids were let out at home time they were throwing snowballs at the school.. it was funny when lorena came home and told me the story.. she was so animated about it and have to admit i was proud, you've got to admire kids for speaking their minds..:D
as for my other daughter well, she went to school fully prepared with a pair of wellies, coat and gloves.. i know from experience that her headmistress is health and safety mad and won't let them out unless they have the proper footwear!![:o]
i do agree that schools can berather hastyto act on things like this.. snow, sickness, whatever the reason, they make a big issue out of nothing.. i've had many phonecalls at work requesting that i go to get my kids because they're supposedly ill.. it doesn't bother me when it's legit,the last thing i want is to be away from my kids when they're feeling poorly..but half the time they ring up for silly things.. oh, she sneezed a couple of times and said she had a runny nose.. please could you come and collect her.. that's when i find it irritating, it's a total inconvenience but what can you do about it..?[&:]
ali xx