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AIBU?

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To have not sent DD to school in the snow?

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Resultsday · 30/01/2019 11:14

It's snowed heavily overnight.
Her school is seven miles and two buses away (the only suitable school that had space when we moved her due to bullying issues)
The bus company cancelled all regional services from a certain depot for the first of her two buses until 11am.
All three local secondaries including the one on my street are closed due to 'dangerous and icy conditions.'

She COULD have walked forty minutes in the snow from village to town to see if the other bus company was running a connecting bus.

She could have walked an hour to town in the snow and ice to see if her second bus was running.
If it wasn't she would have had to do the walk in reverse.

She is in year 11 which is why I'm more stressed about it, she has some additional needs if it's relevant and up to yesterday had had 100% attendance since September 2017.

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Resultsday · 30/01/2019 14:22

BlueTrees her work ethic is fine. It's one thing I'm not worried about.
Daily she leaves the house before 7am gets back about six.
Once a week she volunteers from 6-8pm.
Twice a week she is a Lance Corporal in the military cadets and leaves the house as soon as she gets in and gets changed arriving home around ten pm which includes other days of community work, poppy selling, training camps etc at the weekends.
Before other kids applied for college she already had three offers despite having additional needs.
Her course in September is a physically demanding course.

She's got more work ethic than many adults tbh.

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SnuggyBuggy · 30/01/2019 14:30

Plenty of working adults don't and shouldn't travel in dangerous conditions. It has nothing to do with work ethic and it would be a hell of a lot safer for the emergency services and essential workers to travel if others didn't feel pressured to do so as well

WaxMyBalls · 30/01/2019 14:47

Babying? Give over. It would be better if more people used a bit of sense about travelling in dangerous conditions.

steppemum · 30/01/2019 15:06

BlueTrees
YOU are BVU. The school bus is not running. She cannot get to school.

Both the school, and the local police will say - not safe, don't travel.

One day is not going to make any difference, and even if she is off for a couple more days this week due to weather, she can do loads of revision and work from home.

BlueTrees123 · 30/01/2019 15:14

@steppemum

There are children in various parts of the world who walk for hours to school every day and are quite happy to do so as they know education is their path to a better life. We have children here who are incapable of walking for 45 minutes to catch a bus because they have been mollycoddled and not allowed to take any risks.

I'm not talking about the OP's DD here, but we have a whole generation of DC born in the 2000s who are completely unable to do anything for themselves and who burst into tears at the slightest difficulty. It's entirely their parents' fault.

Hotterthanahotthing · 30/01/2019 15:15

In year 11 there is plenty of revision to get on with,make sure all homework done.
In heavy snow not allteachers can get inside lessons would have been different anyway.

SapphireSeptember · 30/01/2019 15:24

We have children here who are incapable of walking in dangerous conditions for 45 minutes to catch a bus that might have been cancelled and then have to turn around and walk home again in the same dangerous conditions.
There, fixed it for you. I remember having snow days when I was at school. It took me about half an hour to walk there, but there would have been no point in me going there if school was closed, would there?

steppemum · 30/01/2019 15:29

well done Sapphire.

Bue Trees - at 14:00 you accused the OP of mollycoddlying and now you say you are not talking about OP's DD

The thread is about Op Dd, and a day when there is enough snow and dangerous enough conditions for the buses to be cancelled. The thread is not about kids who can't get off their backsides and walk a mile to school.

WaxMyBalls · 30/01/2019 15:53

It is if you're a fuckwit, I suppose.

MrsJayy · 30/01/2019 15:58

Bluetrees what are you on about ? Jeez some people just take it too far.

SapphireSeptember · 30/01/2019 17:06

Thanks steppemum. Google said it should be 22 minutes, but I used to be a slow walker and liked to stop and look at things.

BlueJava · 30/01/2019 18:16

I wouldn't stress about it - if you're really concerned and think it may be more than 1 day can you contact the school and tell the transport position and ask for work to be sent? I don't think it's a massive deal though.

Racecardriver · 30/01/2019 18:18

Why didn’t you drop her off?

PineapplesAndTheGovernment · 30/01/2019 18:22

Yanbu. Dd had 10 kids in her class off today.
When she was in year 6 she was in the school reception and the Head was looking out at kids from the school walking past with sledges on their way to the park

MrsJayy · 30/01/2019 18:41

Why didn’t you drop her off?

The op doesn't drive and her mum was snowed inher street

Talkingfrog · 30/01/2019 22:12

Our office takes the line that staff need to be able to get home safely. If the busses stop running, those that travel by bus are advised to leave so they can complete their journey first . Those that drove in can stay or go. People travel a variety of distances, and some people have to take into account the conditions at home too.
Yanbu unreasonable not to send her on the off-chance there is a bus. She is better of revising at home.

BeardedMum · 30/01/2019 22:17

I would not worry at all

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