This morning the Guardian managed to simultaneously write about the fuss concerning schools closing due to snow and demonstrate the need for education, by including this line in their story:
The anger was most acute in cities where every schools was shut
skud's sister // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm
My boss’s wife is a deputy headteacher and she pointed out that schools can only grit up to the doors (not playgrounds) and parents tend to get even more shirty (and sometimes litigious?) when they are called in to take kids to casualty with broken bones. Those of us who did go into work yesterday found it was so much easier (a 30 minute journey rather than the two hours it took on Monay evening) without all the school-run traffic. Now if we could just convince people that the path is safer than walking in the main Bradford to Halifax road……
Rob Glover // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Why can’t schools grit their own playgrounds?
Rob Glover // Feb 4, 2009 at 6:19 pm
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/angry-parents-forced-to-spend-six-hours-tobogganing-200902041556/
Skuds // Feb 4, 2009 at 7:13 pm
And yet… more schoolchildren were killed and injured playing in the snow than than would have been killed/hospitalised at school.
skud's sister // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I never said it made sense. I would imagine schools don’t grit the playgrounds on the grounds of cost. (Although they could probably power the school on the untapped energy of kids kept indoors whenever it is snowy or icy).
Skuds // Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Then again, why on Earth would a school want to grit its playground? More fun to play in snow than on gritty tarmac I would have thought.