Schools close as we get first taste of winter!

[Haliotis]

Who are the prime movers in being so quick to shut schools?  Surely it isn’t the kids - don’t they love snow in the same way as we did?  Is it the parents - too lazy to clear snow in order to use the car?  Or is it the teachers - always ready for a freebie and an extra lie-in?   Whimps!  I remember getting up to snowdrifts half way up the doors.  And no heated house to get up to.  Morning wash was done at the kitchen sink, with the gas stove on and its door open to get some warmth.  Then there was some snow clearing to do before you could get away from the house.   Snow ploughs overnight, accompanied by workmen hand-shovelling a grit and salt mixture on the main roads in town.  And it took at lot more then to stop public transport drivers. Then we were off to school as usual.  After all that, at the start of early evening, there were we kids playing in the snow.  And finally going home with the “hot-aches” and wet clothing which was hung on a clothes horse in front of the fire to dry, and we went to bed with a hot water bottle.  Sleeping ready to start it all over the next day.

Tell you what!  I wouldn’t swap my time for what today’s kids call a life!

[AndyN01]

Absolutely.

Remember - in the current culture, it's always someone else's fault and they can be sued for lots and lots of ££££'s. Even better if it's tax payer's money paying the "compensation" as that's a bottomless pit. So it's no surprise that "officials" act to stop stuff before it gets to that point.

IMHO it's all part and parcel of the compensation/WOKE/pathetic wimpy view where nothing and no one can be hurt or offended and everyone has rights and entitlements and can have anything, be anything and have everything handed to them on a plate with bells and whistles.

The result is a skewed realty and the paralysis of the functioning of the country and society in general.