[Scarlett.]

Hmmm, I noticed the poll wording could be confused so
Yes = Snow days should be a thing of the past and students must learn remotely during them
No = Preserve the tradition of snow days

Youtube video

[Ashley.]

Expecting a child to just 'be able' to learn remotely at such short notice is pretty ambitious. Even when we have been in a pandemic for over a year, there are still thousands of kids who are under-prepared for reasons out of their control. Plus, if the snow is heavy enough to call off school, then it is probably enough to cause power outages, too.

[Toy Soldier]

Can only go with my own experience of the lockdowns here; the home schooling set up was such utter crap that they might as well still be off on a snow day. My eldest was finished her days work by 11am and it wasn’t tailored to ability so she was doing work she’s already covered more than a year earlier. Half of her class showed up only maybe half to 3/4 of the time, a few kids weren’t seen once the entire time, and yet now they’re back at school it doesn’t seem like anyone is particularly behind any other (more than just the usual with the ability groupings). The whole thing was an absolute joke.

[bitontheslide]

How many days would be interrupted by snow in the average kids school career?

I lived in Scotland and there was never a day the schools were closed from snow for my entire time at school

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

How many days would be interrupted by snow in the average kids school career?

I lived in Scotland and there was never a day the schools were closed from snow for my entire time at school

My kids have had maybe 3 in our entire primary school experience (7 years now). I had a few as a kid but it wasn't because of the snow, it was because if it got too cold the school's ancient coal-fired heating system couldn't keep up and they had to send us home because the classrooms were freezing .

We also once got a week off because there was a minor fire in the school and, as this was before the days of fire doors/keeping fire doors shut, all the classrooms were open and got coated in a fine layer of soot, and as it was deemed that it could be hazardous to asthmatics etc, they had to get the whole place scrubbed down. Lolz.

[Ammi]

…our snow days tend to often depend on whether the school bus transport is able to run and the bus companies have to be fairly confident that they would be able to get the children back home in the afternoon obviously…there are lots of non gritted country roads here as well…even in the finest weather, they’re not the best roads for buses to travel on but they have to….I think the most snow days we had in one go was with the Beast from the East…hmmmmm, I think it might have been 3 consecutive days we had….

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…our snow days tend to often depend on whether the school bus transport is able to run and the bus companies have to be fairly confident that they would be able to get the children back home in the afternoon obviously…there are lots of non gritted country roads here as well…even in the finest weather, they’re not the best roads for buses to travel on but they have to….I think the most snow days we had in one go was with the Beast from the East…hmmmmm, I think it might have been 3 consecutive days we had….

Yeah all of the kids here are local, the times they've had to be off is because of the roads being bad into the village and so teachers who commute being unable to reach the school. Not enough staff to open.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yeah all of the kids here are local, the times they've had to be off is because of the roads being bad into the village and so teachers who commute being unable to reach the school. Not enough staff to open.

…yeah one of the big written rules of school staff is …don’t ever live close by to your school…so that can be a bit restricting in bad weather….