[Magdalen] Fourth of July?

[Charles Wohlers]

OTOH, when I lived in Orchard Park, NY (Buffalo suburb), the story was that 
school would only be closed if the snow was above the superintendent's 2nd 
floor window.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jay Weigel
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:30 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Fourth of July?

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
>