I've just picked my daughter up from school and been told by the headmaster that 'all the schools in Powys will close tomorrow due to forecast snow'!Yes forecast snow.
What if it doesn't snow? Hard luck I suppose, the schools will be already closed.
All the children had a letter from someone whose title was amazingly 'Head of Schools and Inclusion'!
Inclusion?! I give up.
Back to the snow, and why are the schools closing?
Are they worried about school buses etc crashing?
Are they worried about children falling over on the snow/ice?
Is it an excuse for the teachers to skive off?
Whatever the reason, tomorrow, every parent with a school aged child in school will be inconvenienced, those that work will be seriously inconvenienced as will thousands of businesses who employ people with school age children. And all because it might snow.
It probably will snow actually, but how do schools in Canada and the like cope?
I can't imagine them saying in November - 'right kids no school 'till April'!
I think it's time we got a grip.
