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walking on ice, a small slip can kill ...
If teachers can’t get in then who looks after them?
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1: Risk of School being sued for pkayground injuries due to untreated areas
2: Lazy Teachers - or more typically, not prepared to take on extra care duties
3: Cost of extra cleaning
I remember going to school in shorts in winters like this and playing in the icy playground at breaks and trailing home at the end of th day unattended with my woolen mittens cold and soaking and icicles hanging from my nose cos my hanky had gone solid from being dried out on the class radiators around midday!
Teachers and support staff having to travel from further away to get in is also an issue, most schools are operating on the bare minimum numbers already.
There’s probably not far off a foot here in Midlothian now, and it hasn’t stopped yet... given that it won’t last much more than a couple of days it does seem more sensible just to stay at home.
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As above, it’s basically the ‘sue everyone’ culture that we seem to have massively cultivated.
I've got a guy in my office who has made it from Kent to Acton this morning. All the main roads are gritted. In the South-East at least, it's not cold enough for the roads to refreeze after they have been gritted.
A lot of schools closed in my area, but the snow is drifting across and blocking roads and a lot of teachers live out in the sticks, don't think the pic at the top is representative of why many schools are closed. My partner's made it the 8 miles in to the school she works at, but they're now looking at closing early beacuse it's snowing hard again and roads ar getting blocked and like wimps the teachers want to get home tonight.
Think there's also a load of old fantasy bollocks about how everyone used to walk 400 miles to school in the snow in their underpants and never did them any harm. I remember plenty of snow days back in the 80s and speaking to my dad and a friend who went to school in the 50s/60s, they also remember days of school due to snow. Obviously none of this will placate the usual 'I hate teachers' mob or those pissed off that their child's education free child care has been cancelled.
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It's not just eh young-uns. Two members of my team (both well over 40) called me this morning saying they didn't want to come in because of the snow.
We have less than an inch of snow here and the roads are gritted and completely clear.
That and a decision has to be made at about 6am as to whether the school grounds are safe or can be cleared in time. That decision has potential legal consequences should the grounds not be fit and little Jayden slips over and cracks their head open. In the past people were less litigious and the LEA /school could get away with telling the parents/child 'tough shit, deal with it'.
Besides it doesn't happen that often so can't we just let the kids have a snow day and stop being miserable joyless bastards. Considering most kids off school seem to be spending the day out playing the snow, I hardly think anyone can accuse them of being wimpy and wanting to stay in the warm and dry.