Interesting thought that online working during snowy weather is a threat from the modern world and that snow days are a childhood memory.
For me, and I’m only in my early 60’s, snow days are not exactly a threat, but are a thing of the modern world. During my early years of teaching, during the 1980’s, snow days were unheard of. Back then, only 40 years ago, many teachers often lived closer to the school where they worked than they do today, and health and safety issues were not widely considered.
Where I worked, at a fairly large primary school, there were about 4 of us, including the headteacher, who even in very deep snow could walk to the school within 30 minutes. We looked after all of the children between us until such time as staff who lived further away managed to arrive. Schools didn’t close in those days and so all the children would arrive and be snowballing and sliding in the playground until we let them inside. When I think back some of the staff who lived further away must have had horrendous journeys to work, but they didn’t give up and sometimes didn’t arrive until halfway through the morning.
I’m not saying those days were better, but it was a different world, and people just wouldn’t do it today. Sorry for wandering off the point of this thread, not really a Covid matter.
