On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:55:52 +0000, Tim W wrote:
I vaguely recall that my school was probably only closed for about 1 day
ever due to people not being able to get in. It did close a few other days
in bad weather, but that was due to the heating breaking down (ah, council
maintained boilers....)

These days, it seems to be several days each year. Trouble is half the staff
in our local school live miles away and the half that live locally can't
open the school, presumably because they can't technically cover all the
required functions.

To be fair, that happens here too sometimes, even though we *know* we're
going to be snow-covered for several months of the year. I suppose that
below a certain number of teachers, they can't run the whole school (as
you say) - but merging classes doesn't really help as it diverts too much
from the planned teaching to really be useful; it's no great loss just to
shut the place.

What we do have are quite a lot of late starts, where they'll open the
school a couple of hours late. More often than not, that's due to the cold
rather than the snow (pretty much all the kids get bussed in to school
here, and they don't want them standing out and waiting for the bus
when it's -30 out)

cheers

Jules