Health And Safety Has A Lot To Answer For

It was a much brighter day today with blue skies and sunshine interspersed by a few snow flurries. Overnight snowfall accounted for barely two inches on top of the already lying ice and snow but this made it much easier to get about on foot. Admittedly the side roads were a bit dodgy for vehicles but the main roads were clear and all the buses were running. So why oh why did someone take the decision to close most of the town's schools? As can be seen here, behind the locked gates and notice about the closure, the path leading to the buildings at one school had been totally cleared of the white stuff.


Surely it would have been better for the children to be in a centrally heated school even if the timetable had to be disrupted than set free to roam about the town's streets, have snowball fights in the town centre or play alongside a partially frozen canal, all of which I observed today. Health and safety legislation has much to do with the decision to close schools and whilst this is understandable in areas that have been hit hard by the weather, it seems to me that it was just an easy option here today. What about the health and safety of all the people on the bus today which was the target of idiot boys who aimed snowballs at the windscreen? idiot boys who should have been in school!

One school that did remain open was at Kirk Hallam but two thirteen year old boys have been suspended from there for five days for trying to cross the semi-frozen lake near the entrance, getting stuck half way and causing a full scale emergency to rescue them. It's not a suspension from school they need, it's an education!