Schools Close for 3/4 inches of Snow...

[trt]

When I was a kid in the mid fifties I use to walk about a mile + to school all year round and if it snowed we still got there, and in them days it could be a foot or more.

If the heating broke down we just put on our coats and carried on with the lessons, it never did us any harm.

The kids today don't know how lucky they are!!!!

[boxtops]

Me neither - and I well recall one day walking to school in deep fog, which was really scary as I couldn't see a thing in any direction. No excuse for not going, though!

[knbarter]

It is an unfortunate disgrace that foot- and cycleways don't get cleared. What pedestrians have to battle against on the pavement is a disgrace.

[mumsie_wumsie]

I can't remember my school ever closing due to snow (1950's). My grand children go to school in a little village and their school also never closes due to snow. They have a fantastic care taker there who makes sure everything is up and running. Most of the children live locally to the school, but there were a few this week who just didn't bother going in.( some live literally over the road ).But blame the parents for this-just an excuse to not have to go out .

[B00]

The past two winters we had snow pretty bad and Mini Boo's primary school didn't shut.

[tonyav]

The only time i can remember being sent home from school ( infants ), was during the winter of 1963.

[Postdog]

Wish I was lucky enough to have coal for breakfast back then :(

Seriously, people of today are wimps!

[starone]

Well, mine was the 1930's - 'nuff said! The only way you stayed home from school was if you were really ill - pneumonia, or something like that.

[FredPuli43]

Can't remember my schools closing for bad weather, but that was in the 50s and 60s, when teachers lived close to them.
In Ontario, the children have to go outside at break unless the temperature is significantly lower than minus 15 C . What would parents and 'health and safety' here say about that ? But Canada, and Canadians, are adjusted to such conditions and prepared for them. We are not.

[wendilla]

When I tell my daughter this her reply is( And you say these were the good old days were they?) And I say yes they were at least everything did not stop because of snow. We got through one way or another and that was in Scotland .Kids even panic now if the washing machine breaks down they don't know how to wash by hand. I could go on and on.

[joeluke]

It's not that teachers CAN'T get to work due to the snow, it's they WON'T get to work because of it

It's an easy and convenient excuse for them to have a day or two off, the rest of the country struggles to get to work in adverse weather so why should our 13 weeks holidays-a-year teachers not make the effort?

If everyone took their stance the country would grind to a halt