Times have changed (From Droitwich Advertiser)

Times have changed

7:50am Sunday 31st January 2010

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IN her letter Margaret Warman says that despite heavy snow nothing stopped us going to school in the 1940s and 50s.

She is right, I always managed to get to school in the 1940s. I can’t speak for the 1950s, as I had left school by then.

The problem is that the teachers lived within walking distance of the school in those days whereas now they can live anything up to 20 or more miles away.

If there are insufficient teachers able to get to school it is easy to see why schools can close.

Margaret’s suggestion that teachers should bring sleeping bags and stay overnight at the school is ridiculous. Does she not realise that teachers have families and other priorities themselves.

Her comments about meteorologists are also incorrect. The snow was forecast extensively on television and radio several days beforehand and no one should have been surprised by the amount of snow we eventually had.

Frank Allen, Droitwich Spa

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