My school (before my time) apparently used to take a cavalier attitude to snow, and consider it unBritish to panic and go home.

Until that legendary time (about 2 years before I got there I think) when the snow came down and they ignored it - and all the pupils and teachers were snowed in together for several days, and had to get emergency rations delivered by helicopter.

I imagine this is a teacher's idea of hell. After that, it was one flake and onto the busses!