We have to listen to the safety reports. There have been red alerts. School heads have the safety of their children and staff as a priority. I’m afraid some people will complain if schools are shut and others will complain if they are open. We’ve all seen the news - would you want to risk the safety of your loved ones just to be able to say “ ah, but, the schools stayed open”.
There are a whole host of issues to be taken into consideration, and believe me, the decision to close a school is not taken lightly. The teachers will not be viewing it as an extra day or two’s holiday, either!!
In the “ good old days” when people were made of “ sterner stuff”, the children and staff were, by and large, local to the school. Neither was there the volume of traffic that there is now and neither were there so many children been driven to school. Roads were generally quieter. We’ve seen the pictures in recent days of vehicles skidding out of control - should we put the children walking to school, standing at bus stops in zero temperatures at risk just so we can say the school remained open, though?