[quote=@Gunther] yes Safety issues and possibility of lawsuit if someone should get hurt -- bus accidents and such.[/quote] I am not sure who you are supposed to sue. God? If your buss goes of the road due to ice it's an unpreventable accident. At least where I am from. [quote=@Kuro] It depends on where the school is located. If the school is located in the deep south, for instance, then they'll cancel school if it starts to snow even the slightest bit since snow in a place where it rarely - and I mean rarely - snows can cause serious problems for people/communities not used to snow. Where I live, though, that kind of snow wouldn't cancel school at all. Here it needs to be nearly a blizzard and/or double digit negative temperature/wind chill to cancel school.[/quote] Thing is TV always depicts this as children going to play outside in the snow. And that's the WTF for me. Like I can understand it happening if houses are literally snowed in to the point where you can't even get the door open. But if you can go out of your house at all, let alone play outside safely than you can walk to school just fine. And sure, you might need to get walking a hour earlier than you normally would. But that's just life for you. Deal with it. I literally had weeks where I would go uphill both ways (I had to cross a hill) to reach public transport in snow up to my knees as a kid. And it was completely normal. Just put on warm socks, get up early and trudge those extra hours.