Pleased DS's head decided to open the school yesterday!

[coffeejunkie]

The right message is sent to the children AND we still enjoyed the snow and built snowmen after school!

good for you!

Our schools didn't open. Our village was not too bad, but the roads in and out were pretty treacherous so am glad that school was closed.

Very glad it is open today though!

we have snow so seldom not sure it really makes a difference.

ds 7 has amazing memories from yesterday that he would never have got if they opened his school.

Hmmmm my dd1 and her Dad skidded off the road Sunday evening and ended up in ditch in only a couple of cm of snow, yes it would have been great yesterday if lots more people had been out on the road yesterday morning and ended up in similar accidents!

My DS school is open - seems to be the only one in the area that is - we walked to school as it is only 1 mile away - no probs.

What?

well I am pleased that my childrens schools closed.
I think telling my child that getting in a minibus to go to school in once in a blue moon and extrememly dangerous conditions is a really stupid message.
But then we had a foot of snow. Their schools have never had to close before

I don't think I would have sent my children even if the school had been open. There are young adults in this part of the country who have been through their entire childhood without being able to experience that sort of snow-play. I find that quite sad and am glad my kids have now built snowmen more than twice their height and have tried sledging. Yesterday was one of those money can't buy days... and bloody refreshing it was too.

Obviously wouldn't expect to make dangerous journey..School closed 3 so still had time to play and the school had a snowball fight! Guess what - even sent them in with wellies/change of clothes!

The message from our Local Authority and Police was that it was dangerous to place an expectation on individuals to make dangerous journeys in dangerous conditions.

School is not everything. Do you think that mine will get Cs at A level now whereas the school goers yesterday will get As and Bs?

That's great coffeejunkie but some schools were closed as it was too dangerous to open or for any number of other reasons and it wasn't the parents decision. Our school has closed about 3 times in 30 years so I will take it the Head did do the right thing for our children.

Aah yes. The right message. Our children got all sorts of bad messages. They spent an entire day whizzing down hills at breakneck speeds, hurling snowballs at each other and building snow families.

I blame the parents

and the school

and the government.

The country's going to the dogs.

Great.too many lazy brits look for any excuse to have another time off work!

Our school was open and the head made sure the kids had an extra long playtime in the snow. DD was able to go toboggoning with her father after school- there were loads of families doing the same thing and a party atmosphere apparantly.
The only people who faced car journeys were the staff and most lived within a few miles and all the roads were clear enough (and no hills). The catchment is very small therefore no child lives more than 3 miles from the school. You would have thought that would have meant 100% attendance - but no. Interestingly it was people who lived no further away than we do (approx 1 mile which we walk every day)who decided it was too dangerous to drive and too far to walk .
I am constantly surprised at how few people are prepared to walk when there is a breakdown in the transport system.

DS's day nursery closed yesterday from lunchtime and today as well - so I (as a teacher) was very glad that our school had closed. Also, staff don't tend to live locally in most schools (maybe the teaching assistants tend to but the teachers definitely don't). I travel across the city to go to work so it would definitely not be a good idea for me.

ds 7 school re-openend today. when we got there this morning a small path had been dug in the snow the rest was untouched.

he has spent the whole day on 'lockdown'.
no outside breaks at all.

wish id kept him home now.

We opened today and planned to send the kids out for a snow play on the field. 2 of my class had boots with them - the rest turned up in black school shoes.

Well our school was open today, there was no grit left for them to grit the slopes to the school (council had taken it for the roads) so we had to struggle 500 yards up and down steep slopes on solid ice. What a joke.

The pta organised a "working party" on the monday that the school was closed. Arrangedcoffees and half a dozen parents turned up and shovelled snow to create safe pathways.

So opened tuesday and children with wellies on (not ds he refused to wear them as they are uncool ) had a long lunchbreak building snowmen

hobbgoblin,
My son has been off for four days and the school where I work have has been off for three and half days.

I think its the right decision. There is no reason why my son's education cannot continue at home. I hate being a home educator though.

Maybe my son will fail his GCSEs because he had four days off at seven years old. I seriously doult it. But I would prefer for my son to get low GCSE results than his young teacher to die in a road accident.