I must say that I well remember missing school for a couple of days in 1964/65 when our bus only just got outside Haslemere in Surrey, on its way to our school in Midhurst, after getting stuck in a foot of snow. How we celebrated as we walked through the snow to our homes! 
In addition I also remember being told we could not use the playground because of ice on a number of occasions in 1958/9. 
The boys loved making long stretches extra icy by sliding repeatedly along its length before getting pulled away by the teachers and everyone getting hauled inside!
No, even in those days, schools were cautious about operating in bad conditions, and sometimes it would result in being sent home early, which I remember in certainly 1967/68 whilst at an Eastbourne school. Howver, I cannot remember one of my schools being closed at the beginning of the day just because of a bit of heavy snow 
I think they tended to decide to "wait and see what happened" first 8-) 8-)
Yup. Us boys would find & "improve on" the slidiest? part of the playground in our little village school in W.Sx. & we were allowed to do so in the early 70's. We were in shorts, no silly knee or elbow pads, helmets or the like, 8 years old & the only thing i objected too was wearing a coat 'cos they were gay even then.
Would'nt try sliding around like that today though, i'd do myself a mischief.
We should let kids be kids & learn by the knocks & bumps. Does'nt make us bad parents.
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