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My comment was not meant personally — and apologies if it came across that way. What I don’t understand is why some schools make a decision on closure the day before, and others – more sensibly perhaps -- the first thing in the morning As the school was almost empty it would not have been possible for the school to follow up (as they would normally) how many were playing truant as opposed to being kept at home by their parents. As to the culture of taking a day off whenever possible – I can now see that it applies also to the many parents who chose to keep their children off from this school when it was actually open. My son told me that the teachers who had to come in were rather annoyed that so few students turned up and they ended up watching videos all day.