Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

Dave.
I think its all to do with the claim culture we live in today, however you
never see factories closed when theres a frost. Too much PROFIT lost if that
were to happen.
"Dave.C" wrote in message
. uk...
I'll start the ball rolling. Heard from a Headteacher from the south on
Radio 5 Live this afternoon:-
"The toilets might freeze"
Let's hope he doesn't teach physics! Presumably the toilets are outside
and
they haven't heard of insulation. Even if it had been -10 every night this
week that still wouldn't have happened!
Doh!
Dave

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:55:45 +0000, Alan White
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:19:03 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

My school never closed for a single day during the winter of 1962-3,

Similarly, for me, in 1947, and we had outside toilets.

Outside toilets .. We used to dream of outside toilets....


Enough of that....


Missed two days because I was stuck in a Somerset village during the
Feb 1978 incident.. Still the best snowfall I have experienced while
not being 600m up in Norway...

Richard Webb

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:55:45 +0000, Alan White
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:19:03 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

My school never closed for a single day during the winter of 1962-3,

Similarly, for me, in 1947, and we had outside toilets.

Outside toilets .. We used to dream of outside toilets....


Enough of that....


Missed two days because I was stuck in a Somerset village during the
Feb 1978 incident.. Still the best snowfall I have experienced while
not being 600m up in Norway...

Richard Webb

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:55:45 +0000, Alan White
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:19:03 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

My school never closed for a single day during the winter of 1962-3,

Similarly, for me, in 1947, and we had outside toilets.

Outside toilets .. We used to dream of outside toilets....


Enough of that....


Missed two days because I was stuck in a Somerset village during the
Feb 1978 incident.. Still the best snowfall I have experienced while
not being 600m up in Norway...

Richard Webb

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:55:45 +0000, Alan White
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:19:03 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

My school never closed for a single day during the winter of 1962-3,

Similarly, for me, in 1947, and we had outside toilets.

Outside toilets .. We used to dream of outside toilets....


Enough of that....


Missed two days because I was stuck in a Somerset village during the
Feb 1978 incident.. Still the best snowfall I have experienced while
not being 600m up in Norway...

Richard Webb

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

In 1995, we just carried on ALL DAY through some 12 inch(!) snowDRIFTS,
and even just some ELEVEN months later, in November, 1996, with just a
roundabout 10 inches of snow, we all just carried on AS PER NORMAL!:-o
:-(

It's pathetic. It truly is pathetic. Some Siberian Slavs have to live
ALL year round under PERMAFROST CONDITIONS, and yet they still managed
to get educated. So much so, in fact, and here is an interesting fact
for you all, the man who invented the space rocked WAS a Siberian
Russian PEASANT!:-o :-)

Now who says that socialism doesn't work?

D.

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

In 1995, we just carried on ALL DAY through some 12 inch(!) snowDRIFTS,
and even just some ELEVEN months later, in November, 1996, with just a
roundabout 10 inches of snow, we all just carried on AS PER NORMAL!:-o
:-(

It's pathetic. It truly is pathetic. Some Siberian Slavs have to live
ALL year round under PERMAFROST CONDITIONS, and yet they still managed
to get educated. So much so, in fact, and here is an interesting fact
for you all, the man who invented the space rocked WAS a Siberian
Russian PEASANT!:-o :-)

Now who says that socialism doesn't work?

D.

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

In 1995, we just carried on ALL DAY through some 12 inch(!) snowDRIFTS,
and even just some ELEVEN months later, in November, 1996, with just a
roundabout 10 inches of snow, we all just carried on AS PER NORMAL!:-o
:-(

It's pathetic. It truly is pathetic. Some Siberian Slavs have to live
ALL year round under PERMAFROST CONDITIONS, and yet they still managed
to get educated. So much so, in fact, and here is an interesting fact
for you all, the man who invented the space rocked WAS a Siberian
Russian PEASANT!:-o :-)

Now who says that socialism doesn't work?

D.

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

In 1995, we just carried on ALL DAY through some 12 inch(!) snowDRIFTS,
and even just some ELEVEN months later, in November, 1996, with just a
roundabout 10 inches of snow, we all just carried on AS PER NORMAL!:-o
:-(

It's pathetic. It truly is pathetic. Some Siberian Slavs have to live
ALL year round under PERMAFROST CONDITIONS, and yet they still managed
to get educated. So much so, in fact, and here is an interesting fact
for you all, the man who invented the space rocked WAS a Siberian
Russian PEASANT!:-o :-)

Now who says that socialism doesn't work?

D.

Feeblest excuse heard for closing a school?
 

In article ,
RJ Webb writes:
Missed two days because I was stuck in a Somerset village during the
Feb 1978 incident.. Still the best snowfall I have experienced while
not being 600m up in Norway...

I still remember how disappointed I was on waking up on the Sunday
morning to find that the forecast spread of the snow into the SE of
England had not in fact occurred.
--
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)