On Feb 7, 9:30 pm, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
Your Joking, that's taking the ****. I live in darkest mid Wales and my
kids School are deciding in the morning what they're doing.

Rob.

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I couldn't get to school for almost a week in 1963 because the bus couldn't
get up the hill through the four foot snow drifts. Naturally the school was
open despite the outside toilets being a bit frozen. Managed the next three
months though the 12" pack ice on the pavements was tricky at times.
Dave
P.S - Wouldn't it be a wonderful opportunity to put all those funny 4WD jeep
things on the school run to good use.

My school years were 1948 to 1960 in suburban Surrey. Neither
the primary or grammar school I attended were *ever* closed because of
the weather. The country is going truly soppy. It would be
interesting to know what happens in other European countries. In
Jakutsk, Russia, schools are closed if the temperature drops below
-51°C.
As far as the present setup is concerned, the temperature here
is now above freezing with a moderate SE'ly so with luck we'll get
away without much snow. This stuff lost its attraction for me at
roughly the same age as I gave up collecting engine numbers, i.e.
about 13.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"Tudor Hughes" wrote in
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My school years were 1948 to 1960 in suburban Surrey. Neither
the primary or grammar school I attended were *ever* closed because of
the weather.
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I went to school in Worcestershire between 1980 and 1993. In total, I had
one day off - in February 1991, when we had eight inches of snow and more
forecast (though the latter didn't really materialise). As I walked to my
first school in Kidderminster, I attended every day during the 1981/82
winter, though at one point only about half of my classmates were managing
to get in!

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

Tudor Hughes wrote:


My school years were 1948 to 1960 in suburban Surrey. Neither
the primary or grammar school I attended were *ever* closed because of
the weather. The country is going truly soppy. It would be
interesting to know what happens in other European countries. In
Jakutsk, Russia, schools are closed if the temperature drops below
-51°C.

Well said. My school-days in Northamptonshire covered much the same period,
1949-62, and we never missed a day off school. In 1947, My dad never missed
a day off work. Of course, misssing a day's pay and facing the sack for
non-attendance may have contributed to his enthusiasm. For these reasons,
one Rushden man walked the dozen miles to Northampton through waist-deep
snow to get to work.

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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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Graham P Davis wrote:
Tudor Hughes wrote:


My school years were 1948 to 1960 in suburban Surrey. Neither
the primary or grammar school I attended were *ever* closed because
of the weather. The country is going truly soppy. It would be
interesting to know what happens in other European countries. In
Jakutsk, Russia, schools are closed if the temperature drops below
-51°C.

Well said. My school-days in Northamptonshire covered much the same
period, 1949-62, and we never missed a day off school. In 1947, My
dad never missed a day off work. Of course, misssing a day's pay and
facing the sack for non-attendance may have contributed to his
enthusiasm. For these reasons, one Rushden man walked the dozen miles
to Northampton through waist-deep snow to get to work.

I think that one contributory factor around here is that teaching staff
cannot afford to live near the schools ( a 3 bed semi around here costs
£420,000) and often have a long commute and if everyone attempted their
normal journeys it would be total gridlock. Without staff schools cannot
function.The pupils often come from a long way as our local schools are
higlhy regarded (not always with justification).

I would agree with the sentiments expressed in this thread - my schooldays
were in the 1950s and 1960s incuding the 1962/63 winter. School was never
closed as far as I can remember although the most snow arrived just after
Christmas.

Next jon is to go out with the camera -still light snow falling.


Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL

Alan Gardiner wrote:



I think that one contributory factor around here is that teaching staff
cannot afford to live near the schools ( a 3 bed semi around here costs
£420,000) and often have a long commute and if everyone attempted their
normal journeys it would be total gridlock. Without staff schools cannot
function.The pupils often come from a long way as our local schools are
higlhy regarded (not always with justification).


The same reason for school closures is being given here, i.e. teachers
travelling from outside the town, but I can't see the cost of housing being
an excuse for not living near the school. Mind you, I don't know how far
they have to travel and what is considered too far to walk. Civil Service
rules used to be that you were expected to walk up to 5 miles to your
nearest Civil Service or Local Government Office if you couldn't get to
your normal place of work. Did that rule used to apply to teachers?

I used to have to travel 5 miles to school but I only remember one occasion
when the school buses had a problem. That was in the 55-6 winter when the
roads were covered with several inches of ice and the bus started losing
grip on a steep hill. The bus was emptied and we had to walk behind it
until it made it to the top of the hill.


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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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