[Magdalen] Fourth of July?

[Jay Weigel]

Schools are arranged differently here, so it's done on a district-wide
basis with the superintendent making the decision. When my kids were in
school, the superintendent lived on a back road out in the county and we
used to joke that he made the decision to close if there was a single patch
of ice on the road in front of his house.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> 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
>