[Magdalen] Fourth of July?

[Roger Stokes]

On 16/01/2018 17:45, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Interesting that they never closed schools when I was a kid. Madison (WI)
> public schools were closed for weather once in 1943, the year I was born,
> and not again until the blizzard of 1961. This is what consolidation and
> busing have done.

Here in the UK the school Principal is the person who decided whether or 
not to close the school, the criterion being whether it is safe to open 
or not. This will include consideration of whether the site can be 
accessed safely and whether enough staff can get there. They often live 
further away than the students and may have to make their way along 
untreated roads. Because in most parts of the country we rarely have 
heavy snowfall we are ill-equipped for it when it does happen.

Roger