Why I'm sad school snow days might be put on ice

Remember that time when you were a kid and you’d pull back the bedroom curtains and see a world blanketed in snow?
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Was there a better moment than when you listened to the local radio bulletins and heard your school included in the list of those that would not be opening because of wintry weather?

There are many things from my younger days that my own kids will never get to experience - like buying the latest album from Hudson’s Records, or giving three rings from a phone box to let your parents know you’re ok.

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Now it looks like school snow days might get added to those social media listicles that catalogue only things that people of a certain age will remember.

Swapping double maths for a slegding session may soon become another thing of the past...Swapping double maths for a slegding session may soon become another thing of the past...
Swapping double maths for a slegding session may soon become another thing of the past...

It seems an unexpected extra day’s holiday and the chance to go sledging with your mates may also soon become a victim of the inexorable march of progress.

As lockdown has shown, it’s possible to run lessons remotely using zoom hangouts and e-learning virtual classrooms.

I suspect that in future, rather than giving kids the day off when snow piles up outside the school gates, they’ll be told to revert to lockdown mode and work from home.

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Which is something more and more of us will be doing – whatever the weather may bring.

I still remember one year walking into DT HQ, wading knee high through the snow that had buried Chatsworth Road.

As well as looking beautiful, it felt like just going to the office was a bit of an adventure – which is also something that the younger generation seem to get less and less of these days.

There are definitely some aspects of modern life that I wish had been around when I was younger. Having the entire sum of all human knowledge sittting neatly in your jeans pocket would definitely have come in handy a time or two.

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Then there are other things that I’m very ,very, relieved were not.

I’m sure everyone over the age of 30 is glad their teenage moments of madness are not permamently preserved in digital aspic on Facebook and Twitter - like they are for today’s generation. Poor kids.

And they might not even get days off school to go sledging, either...

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