Will there be no more snow days at school?

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When I was a child I remember the excitement of any day the school was closed unexpectedly eg snow, burst water pipe etc. They were the best days ever!
Now, after Covid, it seems that the teachers are ready to switch immediately to online learning. So no more snow days?

etulosba what happened if the snow was so bad that teachers couldn’t get to school? Who taught the lessons?

I hope not
My kids didn’t do online learning as I’m a keyworker and one of mine has sen
So I’m not set up at all for ‘snow days’ with computers and things and I’d have to go to work anyway
So that would be ‘interesting’

etulosba what happened if the snow was so bad that teachers couldn’t get to school? Who taught the lessons?

It never happened. They always got there, or enough of them did to keep the school open. Primary school was a convent and the nuns lived on site.

Teachers are ready to switch immediately to online learning

Really? Ours hardly managed it all during either of the previous lockdowns so I don't see them suddenly becoming agile in the snow.

My dc are quite sad that snow days will no longer exist at their school because of this OP.

We're not "ready to switch immediately to online learning" because converting normal lessons to online lessons can take hours of prep.

In Vancouver, where I live, we sometimes go an entire winter without snow. Most years we get snow once or twice. It can snow like crazy, and then it starts melting the next day.

Rarely it stays cold and the snow hangs around.

Snow removal is terrible. They salt bus routes and plough the bike lanes () but not the side streets.

We need snow days as the roads are so so treacherous. I have seen buses sliding sideways down a slight hill.

But snow days for schools are very rare as they cause an uproar. Parents do not want schools closed as they rely on them for childcare. DH used to take ages to get to work as a teacher because of snow.

Were we to have a snow day, I fear our internet would go down, what with shitty rural connections and all. Alas.

Most of the local non-private schools I know of aren’t capable of last minute online learning even when another part of the same school is already doing it.

We had a day last week where school was closed (power outage) and it was straight into a full schedule of online learning, much to 7 year old dd's disappointment. I was impressed she even had a piano lesson online at such short notice. So there won't be any more snow days here.

I fondly remember the storm of 1987 which meant we got a day off school. We have photos of the damage to the trees as we ventured out in the afternoon before the electric came on. Several neighbours ended up in one house as they had a gas oven and an old fashioned whistle kettle. The rest of us had only electric so couldn't make tea/toast etc.

I'm school never shut for snow but then we're London where we don't get that much!

@Hippywannabe

We have been told no more snow days and that we would be expected to be online that day.

Us too. We have a store of lessons that we can just upload.

Teachers are employed to teach - of course if there is snow an they are unable to get into school they can't physically be there and should be providing work for students - ideally being able to switch to providing online provision. in the past when there have been snow days some teachers have then posted pictures on social media of them on their unexpected day off - I think that is unprofessional and really poor. There are some very hard working and dedicated teachers but there are others who give the profession a bad name

I'm old enough to remember when snow days didn't exist. We were expected to go in come what may.
I have always been jealous of those of you who enjoyed snow days.