Parents, take a carrier of road salt and a shovel to school on Monday

[Tony 10]

Here's a plan to get things moving, our kids back in school and business back to work no matter what the weather brings this weekend.

 

On Monday when you take the kids to school, take a shovel and pick up just a little road salt from the grit bin on the way. Spend just five short minutes helping to clear the school paths before leaving.

 

A school with 250 parents will have over 20 man-hours of snow clearing done before school begins. Five minutes of effort and you get your day back and the kids into school.

 

Yes?

[fishandchips 10]

Doubt it will work, people seem to be quick to complain that everything shuts down in the snow, but not willing to do a thing about it.

[Neutral body 10]

Here's a plan to get things moving, our kids back in school and business back to work no matter what the weather brings this weekend.

 

On Monday when you take the kids to school, take a shovel and pick up just a little road salt from the grit bin on the way. Spend just five short minutes helping to clear the school paths before leaving.

 

A school with 250 parents will have over 20 man-hours of snow clearing done before school begins. Five minutes of effort and you get your day back and the kids into school.

 

Yes?

 

Get real, that would remove a major source of moans. What would they fill their days with then?

[green 10]

Here's a plan to get things moving, our kids back in school and business back to work no matter what the weather brings this weekend.

 

On Monday when you take the kids to school, take a shovel and pick up just a little road salt from the grit bin on the way. Spend just five short minutes helping to clear the school paths before leaving.

 

A school with 250 parents will have over 20 man-hours of snow clearing done before school begins. Five minutes of effort and you get your day back and the kids into school.

 

Yes?

 

Well said Tony. Im fed up to my back teeth listening to people moan about gritters etc. Everyone who is able bodied just needs to chip in.

 

My neighbours and i all spent nearly an hour shovelling snow so we could get on/off our lane. Its not a major route, so i dont expect anyone but ourselves to do it!

[Mathom 10]

A very good idea. I'm waiting for the "but you might get sued!" lot to start now...

[lyndix 10]

I was listening to someone on the radio the other day saying that the kids should clear the playgrounds/paths in school of snow

[Number Six 10]

but you might get sued.

[duckweed 10]

And as we are running out of road salt, where are we getting it from?

[Number Six 10]

The staff canteen at work?

[Tony 10]

We haven't run out of road salt but if you can't find any don't let that stop you from taking a shovel and helping out for five minutes.

[max 13]

Don't be silly Tony, people won't want to spill grit and salt on the floor of their 4x4s. And as for actually getting out when they drop their brats off, heaven forfend.

[Plain Talker 11]

Don't be silly Tony, people won't want to spill grit and salt on the floor of their 4x4s. And as for actually getting out when they drop their brats off, heaven forfend.

 

That's pretty much what I was thinking, max.

 

Can you "broadcast" handfuls of grit, anyway, from the driver-seat of the 4x4 as you drop little peregrine and Saskia at their school gates?