How Come

Life were grand in the olden days. Like an episode of Last of The Summer Wine.

 

They have vehicles and a public transport system designed for extreme weather conditions. We barely have a transport system that can cope with a light shower.

 

Reason being those places have bad snow for months on end, so invest a bigger portion of their annual budget to deal with it. Here it's cheaper to chalk one or two days off a year at most.

 

But we never have had transport Scandinavian standard, that's the point but we used to just crack on, a dusting of snow now and the teachers want to lock up and run home

 

Plus, apparently tons more people work at home these days, so they're able to pick their snot noses up anyway come rain or snow. In their 4x4s with offroad anti skid buttons rather than their Ford Anglias with skid unavoidable.

 

Yep most definitely, mates dad used to have a Leyland princess boy they used to slide

 

Were they the ones that looked like a wedge of cheese?

 

Eggs & Milk!!!!!! It’s pancake day next Tuesday …. How will we all manage now!!!

 

Preparing for bad weather costs a huge amount of money, but it's worth it because they get it every year. Can you imagine the outcry from the usual suspects if a council, government or transport authority in this country spent any money at all on preparing for snow in a year when we didn't happen to have any? They'd get crucified.

 

Post lockdown society. Cancel it and shut it down first, ask questions later.

 

My favourite memory of Penistone Grammar was sliding down the sloped yard on a polished ice slide! Just that - running at it full tilt - Always in well worn doc martens of course - nothing better for sliding.

 

All this...everything was better back in the day crap...led to Brexit.

 

That was the Renault 5 it looked exactly like a piece of Leicester cheese. And drove like one too.
Oh and the seats were plastic so back seat passengers had the ride of their lives.

 

I definitely remember snow days 25-30 years ago. I don’t know how far back you lot are reminiscing about.

 

Brakes optional !!!!!

 

You’ve been reading too much of the Sun’s drivel. Teachers don’t have a say in anything. Health and safety does and the laws governing it.

 

Staff (apart from the Head whose decision it is) find out at the exact same time as parents and children too. Which is a pain in the ass when you have to set off for work at 6:45am on a normal day and closer to 6am when there’s a chance school might be open. The amount of times I’m arrived and then found out we’re closing is not funny.

 

Me too, definitely happened in the 90s when I was at Shelley

 

They have the infrastructure/resource etc to deal with it though, we don't, because we hardly get any to make it worth developing it.

 

Yesah we also had hot and cold running racism and sexism to keep us warm. Society has fundamentally changed the days of teachers living in close proximity to schools like mine did is over. They now often travel for miles.

nostalgia ain’t what it used to be…

Results in schools are so much better. When I went we worked out of 40 year old prefabs in a school with minimal facilities that hadn’t even been painted in years. Now it’s a different and better world. L