I've just been watching the reports on BBC News 24 of the snow and how it's affected transport, schools etc... I don't remember once through Infant and Junior School having the day off because of the weather, including the snow. Most kids walked to school back then, and we wore shorts even in the winter, and I'd say most of our teachers lived fairly close to the school or within the town. And the only time we had off from secondry school was when the Boilers broke one Winter, and even then we got sent for 2 afternoons to another school. Reports today say teachers live too far away from the schools to travel in the bad weather, they say there's the health and safety aspect once the kids are at school, the UK really does grind to a halt at the slightest thing these days. If the snow does get any worse then I'll simply dust off my Taun Taun ! :)
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It's political correctness gone mad. I heard all the schools in Dudley are closed for example, yet there's hardly any snow. I can remember trudging through great mounds of the stuff and, like your experience, our school never closed for such trivialities either! Yes, it's cold but surely we Brits are made of sterner stuff!
once this cloning/defying-God thing gets polished and refined, I hope someone starts making Taun Tauns. I'd buy one!
I wouldn't mind having a little snow here on the West Coast of California ... ;-)
I remember falling into a snowdrift on my way to school and having to sit - slowly steaming - by the radiator until I dried out! Where was health and saftey then??
Did you get stuffed into the belly of a freshly dead Taun Taun until Rogue Two showed up in his Snowspeeder ?
Actually, I'm SO old -- oh, my god, I'm not sure I should admit to this! -- I'm talking about a time BEFORE 'Star Wars'!!!!!!
Now that's just crazy !!!
This is funny. When I was a kid growing up in Ohio, if we got more than a foot of snow they considered maybe shutting down for a day, then re-evaluating whether or not to close-- because maybe a half of an inch might have melted off since the day before. We all hung out by the radio with our snowdogs waiting to hear if school would close or not. Okay, I exagerate, but we often went to school in a foot of snow. kids now-a-days are too soft.
Growing up in 70's meant heavy snow and flares for it to gather up, who cared then? Nobody.
Although the snow fear seemed a bit odd, I can't argue with anyone thinking bugger school/work, I'm building snowmen!
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