Severe cold sometimes mandates school closing.  Like any other operation, schools cannot cancel the day with every cold blast.   Therefore, it’s important that parents provide proper dress for the weather. It’s amazing the number of parents who scream about their child walking to school or waiting for the bus in severe weather, when those very children arrive at school in hoodies and flip-flops or bedroom slippers.  

It’s important to understand that the north gets extreme weather and as a parent you have a responsibility to make certain your child dress warmly. You can never guarantee the passage home will be warm.   Case in point, today I witnessed a kid crawling out of a snow covered ditch after his car slid off the road. He was wearing his pajamas.  Not the attire for cold weather, much less climbing through the snow bank. 

The kids may fight you about dressing warmly. You need to be the adult and insist.  Plenty of fashionable stuff is made for the cold weather.