[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by garinda

Two centimeters of snow and over 2,000 schools closed. Tomorrow as well, even though it's turned to slush!

The bloody lazy teachers, extending their half term holiday more like. Never mind the millions of pounds it will have cost the country, because of time off the children's parents had to unexpectedly take off.

No wonder kids today are soft. They should have put their wellies on and headed off into the blizzards, pretending to be Scott of the Antartic, like I used to.

Were they worried about the poor little dears having to go to school in the nasty weather? The 'poor little dears' were out playing in the stuff, sledging, building snowmen, having snowball fights!

If a parent keeps a child off school for an extra curricular couple of days holiday they face the prospect of a hefty fine and a lecture about how important it is that children attend school on a regular basis.