[Magdalen] Fourth of July?

[Grace Cangialosi]

When I was in seminary, all of the faculty and most students lived on grounds, and the Dean told us during orientation that classes would only be cancelled if he couldn’t get out his door.

Well, guess what?? That very winter we had so much snow that he couldn't’ get out! I think classes were cancelled for a couple of days!

> On Jan 16, 2018, at 3:30 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>