Schools Out...

[Slioch]

It's a funny old world that's for sure.
Most private businesses will have put contingency plans in place and be bending over backwards to ensure they are open and able to trade today.

 

[rugby bloke]

I think every skool in Northamptonshire is closed.

There's an inch of snow here.

My daughter's is open - the buses battled through the frozen wastes to get there !

 

[Levo-Lon]

It's a funny old world that's for sure.
Most private businesses will have put contingency plans in place and be bending over backwards to ensure they are open and able to trade today.

We have a thing call " the Bradford scale" never heard of it until I became a minion..
I had half a day off 18 month ago under Dr's orders after a injection for a frozen shoulder, ffs form filling and wanting to know the in' s and outs of everything..

 

[uphillstruggler]

There were no cars on the roads when you were a kid though, as for central heating.

Easy, there was the odd charabanc about

Heating? Only on bath night

 

[PeteXXX]

My daughter's is open - the buses battled through the frozen wastes to get there !

Heart FB page says my granddaughters school is closed. Daughter got a txt (too late) to tell her that it's open..

 

[Slioch]

We have a thing call " the Bradford scale" never heard of it until I became a minion..

I've worked in a few businesses where they used the Bradford Scale to identify triggers for absence. Not everybody's cup of tea, but it at least ensured everyone was treated the same.

Using a mechanism like this can help businesses where there are high levels of absenteeism. I've worked alongside people who regard their sickness "allowance" as being an extension of their annual leave.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Please do not blame the teachers.

We have to blame somebody, who do you suggest

 

[snorri]

Please do not blame the teachers.

Why not? Most of them live further from the schools than the pupils and are therefore more likely to be calling for closures due to weather related transport problems.

 

[screenman]

Why not? Most of them live further from the schools than the pupils and are therefore more likely to be calling for closures due to weather related transport problems.

Coach companies and caretakers are the one often making the decision. There is a reason teachers live away from schools nowadays.

 

[rugby bloke]

In the case of my daughter's school the decision to close the school is usually based on the buses ability to reach the school. It's catchment is predominately villages reached by ungritted roads and the majority of the children use the bus service, so if the buses cannot get through then the school closes.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I've worked in a few businesses where they used the Bradford Scale to identify triggers for absence. Not everybody's cup of tea, but it at least ensured everyone was treated the same.

Using a mechanism like this can help businesses where there are high levels of absenteeism. I've worked alongside people who regard their sickness "allowance" as being an extension of their annual leave.

Absolutely,we get a fair few schivers..
The organisation soon set's them free..

 

[Globalti]

Very few buses service Derby High School; most of the pupils are driven to school from half a mile away.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Time schools only took pupils within 3 miles. No need for buses to get stuck in 0.5cm of snow then.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

20cm now. The drifts are getting bigger. Off to dig the chickens out. As the kids are off, I have some help and a bit of company, sledging on the hills.

 

[rugby bloke]

Time schools only took pupils within 3 miles. No need for buses to get stuck in 0.5cm of snow then.

Slightly odd logic ... Are you going to stump up the money to build all the extra schools then. Considering in the most of the UK we probably have around a week of this sort of weather most years.