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i live on a main road,pavements are ice now and everyone is walking on the road as it is safer,cant wait to get my 3 children bak to school on monday but also dreading the walk to school( my children are 9,5 and 4).Snow is fine,i have no problem with that but when i am walking on ice with 2 hands to hold and my 9 year old fending for herself then thats in a totally different league! gud luck all u mums on monday morning!

Matt, when ur all grown up and have children of your own you`ll understand. It`s not our (as mums) welfare we`re thinkin of it`s our kids. Cars skidin all over the place could mount a curb etc.People have died just walkin on ice and fallen and banged their head. You`ll realise that other people matter more than your own life. I`m a driver and wouldn`t dare put my kids in a car atm. Walkin on it`s own is scarey. I really realy want schools to open again as I have a partner on nights so keepin 3 kids quiet and happy all day is a task in itself. I have been out and broken as much of the ice as I can, Today I had to give it a rest coz my hands hurt so much.

Just because schools are re-opening, no one that matters would expect anyone to risk life and limb to get there, the safety of children is the most important thing to consider along with the safety of those who have to escort them to school. If anybody considers it to dangerous still, to navigate their way to schools etc, then its simple , you don't go until you consider it safe to do so. I have done a fair bit of walking and driving since the weather took a turn for the worst and on most pavements I've been on i definitly wouldn't like to be responsible for the safety of a few little ones. Its better for the children to lose a few days education now than to lose many weeks with broken limbs.

berts right we live on a hill the pavements and the roads are lethal,i will try to get them there safetly but im not going to risk any broken bones (tcs missus)

Matt


have you been out for a walk yet ?? (and i dont mean to ye car an back) its a death trap out there, there is blood all over liscard were old and young have fell over smacking there heads. you were the first to want the meet canceled.

i wouldn't risk taking my dogs out either.

Just tk a black bag to end of path. Fell twice. The 2nd time i tryed to grab the fence and ended up nearly being impaled on it. Luckily, just a sore rib.

everyone has their own opinions, some people just carry on dispite the snow others have a lay down a give up attitude, each to their own. But there are some people were i work who made the effort to get into work and then there were other people who lived in the same area who took 2 days off work because they said they couldnt get in.

sensilble foot ware helps as well

i lived in my wellies all week and havent fell once or slipped.

If the schools were open I`d make the effort to get my kids to school as safely as possible. 1 has to go to Eastham, 1 has to go to a high school a bus journey away and little one has to walk up the road but it`s not the roads anymore, it is the pavements. I also live on a hill so come in the morning, kids returning to education will be down to common sense.

i pick my grandaughter up from st Georges school most days, the thought of having to walk up and down Broadway ave is too scary.

At my lads school Woodchurch C OF E on the woodchurch, Giving you till 10am to get there, Letting them out at 3pm so you miss rush hour.

thats good of them,

Lots of teachers shopping in Tesco's though.