That schools should close tomorrow where it is snowyy...

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I feel like we should be prepared for days where it'll be difficult for teachers and some children to get into school due to bad weather, so online learning can take place instead!

I went to both of these schools back in the day. Back when I went, the Head of Cots never wanted to close for snow and there was one year that she stayed open when all others closed and a Pulhams coach couldn't get back up the big hill on the Fosseway and crashed. After that, there was a time when Pulhams were the ones who made the decision on when to close based on the safety of getting the kids in.

Mine did.

@ThatGirlInACountrySong no, the gritters won't have been out.

Just like they haven't been out all week even though the temperatures have barely made it above freezing.

It depends where you live. In London where most people are 10 mins away crack on. Once it's a car journey and difficult to get out then I think take it easy.

I’m dreading my DD’s school being closed tomorrow. I’m on a temporary contract and my chance of it getting renewed is diminishing with every day I have to take off with DD.

There's zero chance that OP is a teacher because a) teaching online was awful compared to teaching in person and b) a teacher would realise how many hours of work it takes to set up a functioning online teaching scenario and that it can't be done overnight to produce anything of any value.

London schools very rarely close for snow.
im sure it’s different if you’re somewhere rural.

Snow days are fun if it’s a rarity and you get to go out and play in the snow…but not if you then have to do online teaching / learning. I’d rather go in and I’m sure my kids would, too. Who wants to go back to the hell of lockdown?

It would come in handy for me. I work in a school (not in a teaching role but in the office and nursery). My basic hours are low but I'm always asked to do extra which I'm more then happy to do. Unfortunately for the last 3 weeks my kids have taken it in turn to be ill and now it's caught up with me and I feel dreadful. I've managed to go in and do my contracted hours and cover a colleague one day but I've not done any extra since the sickness began. I feel really bad but it's been unavoidable.

I could really do with tomorrow off but feel so a snow day would be handy on this occasion. Although I can't see it happening where we are 😔

Schools get clobbered by working parents if they close so they don’t t do it lightly.

@Isleoftights are you going to pay more taxes so we can afford the infrastructure to cope with the few days of snow we get a year and that can sit idly by for the rest of the year.

Also are you going to buy winter tyres and snow chains for all vehicles.

The countries you mention will have all these in place, and in fact some countries require snow chains on cars, because they will be needed for months not just a couple of days.

Although I do remember coming back from a school ski trip in the 70s and we spent hours in the airport in Switzerland as they couldn’t cope with the snow on the runway

So OP is a teacher. Shocking.

rural Scotland. We’ve been snowed in for days. Our rural school has been closed since Wednesday and unlikely to open tomorrow.

We get so few good snow days that I feel very strongly that our children should enjoy the same rite of passage that we had - going sledging and having fun. Their studies won't suffer. They won't concentrate when it is snowing outside anyway. Let children be children.

Every year we get this sanctimonious claptrap, yes dear you were in a country where is was better done blah blah blah, however in the country that matters to most of us these events happen for only a few days, a couple of weeks at most and it doesn't make economic sense in invest in the infrastructure to deal with it.

Can you imagine a doctor or nurse suggesting the hospital closes tomorrow?

I used to think education was important and valued. Especially by those in charge of imparting knowledge to kids. The pandemic showed me I was wrong.

Anyway, my thoughts are with the working parents whose schools will shut tomorrow when there is hardly any snow. It’s so damn hard. My kids are older so it no longer affects our work when schools decide to shut.

I find it very weird that Britain hasnt realised yet that it entirely possible to function when it snows. It seems that people just like to ignore it and make up its a disaster and a surprise that came out of nowhere.

I’m in Cornwall and many buses have already said they aren’t running.

Most schools are opening later and closing earlier (the day is getting shorter and shorter by the hour) and are offering online work too.

There are many staff that won’t be able to come in and most students can’t or won’t either.

We had to sleep in the school a couple of years ago as we got snowed in so we are extra careful now and many parents don’t want to take that risk.

I wish they would say it’s up to parents whether they attend or not and not go against their attendance record, as parents don’t know what to do for the best.

If you need childcare then it should be open for them but if you don’t and you’re happy for them to do work at home then I think that’s a much better option.

This is a beautiful sentiment but the majority of parents do have to work.

Gritters have gone up and down passed my window each evening since Thursday, that's Mid Norfolk and we've had no snow yet, just very pretty frost.

How does studying during snow stop children being children?

How will you get to work tomorrow if the schools shut?

I'm also in rural Scotland - the roads have been horrendous but more so with ice, than actual snow. You must really be in the deep deep depths of ruralness...hope you can get out soon

I used to think education was important and valued. Especially by those in charge of imparting knowledge to kids. The pandemic showed me I was wrong.

Agreed

Where exactly is it going to be so snowy that transport isn't possible?

Views like this really annoy me.

Not everyone lives in the middle of a city centre.

Most rural areas won’t have gritted roads and will be covered in ice.

Cars can’t get past and buses refuse due to the risk of an accident with passengers on board.

The pandemic showed me I was wrong.

What garbage, the teachers I know were working longer hours all through covid when they were delivering on-line learning which they had a matter of days to set up when the closures came.

She's a teacher. It was pretty obvious to be fair 🤷‍♀️