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I agree with your second para. One day a year or two ago, some districts in the Denver metro closed and some did not, for snow. Parents in all the districts were angry. Some in the districts that closed were angry because they said the weather wasn't *that* bad, they had to go to work, etc. Some in the open districts said it was unsafe for the kids to be going to school in the snow.
If both parents work, are they putting their work ahead of their children?
There's always tension between work/school. My experience is that the schools in my district anyway don't try to be very family friendly, though in fairness, they have a pretty solid policy of not doing late starts or early closings.
What experience do you have raising a family with two full time working parents?
If both parents work, are they putting their work ahead of their children?
How would they be putting work ahead of their children? Work provides the money to keep a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs and food in their bellies.
It's total BS. Accommodating the lazy and unprepared.
Come work two hours late in Europe because it is -10F and you get fired.
This is about schools, not work places in general. Keep in mind -10F is around -22/23C.
These are the guidelines per Education School Premises Regulations 1999 in England:
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Regulations state that a school heating system must be capable of heating a classroom up to at least 18C.
This minimum temperature must be maintained at all times while the room is in use.
Areas of high activity such as a gym or large hall must be at 15C whereas areas where there is a lower than normal level of physical activity because of sickness or physical disability including sick rooms and isolation rooms must have a minimum temperature of 21C.
Schools have already been closed or dismissed this year in multiple locations in England for temperatures that dipped to -4C (+24F) and below because the school couldn't maintain these temperatures.
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Temperatures dropped to -13C (8.6F) in Shawbury, Shropshire, beating the year’s record low set on Sunday night in Dalwhinnie, in the Scottish Highlands.
Pupils at 123 primary schools and 25 secondary schools in Shropshire will have a second day off because of the weather.
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In Gloucestershire, where about 200 schools closed on Monday, 80 schools remained closed on Tuesday, while more than 90 were shut in neighbouring Herefordshire.
Scores of schools will also be shut across Wales, with Caerphilly and Powys particularly badly affected.
On Monday, some parents complained of schools being closed in areas that had little or no snow. However, the Trades Union Congress urged employers not to force staff to make hazardous journeys into work. Its general secretary, Frances O’Grady, said: “It is essential that employers don’t force staff to make dangerous journeys for the sake of presenteeism.
Please note, the tempatures don't even cross the 0F mark.
While we were in Germany one year local schools in our area closed early each day for about 8 days because it was too hot. So did quite a few of the businesses and factories in the area after one factory alone had over 20 heat injuries.
As a general rule we can control the interior climate in buildings well despite the nastiness that might be going on outside, which probably is what leads people to forget that extreme temperatures can actually be deadly. However, it generally isn't cheap to do this so the emphasis in an area is addressing their own types of normal extremes. It is cheaper to just close a couple of days than prepare for extreme weather that may or may not come even as often as every 5 to 10 years.
European countries aren't any less likely to cancel than US ones, given extreme enough temperature. The big difference? Europe does not experience as volatile of weather as the US.
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What does this waiting 2 hours accomplish? The temperatures are the exact same 2 hours later.
To give the kids a good time, of course!
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