I believe that a very small percentage of parents wouldn’t know how to dress their kids for the weather and therefore the explanation is stupid and belittling to all parents. One more time parents are being taken for idiots. How offending! These people who frequently tell us what to do not only don’t care about our children but also are inexperienced for instance they don’t even have their own kids but will tell a mother of 5 how to dress, feed and deal with her kids. Supposedly they learn that all in teacher’s collage.  When we come to our kids’ school we are not endangering anybody- we came for our own kids; we know how to care for our own kids (most of us do!); we are parenting them not schools…(most of us are doing fine without telling us).  Schools should busy themselves with teaching our kids math/English and so on not to “worry” about how they are dressed. I deplore belittling us parents by schools, principals, teachers and so on for political reasons. This is nasty trickery to make us all look inadequate and in need of the system’s help!  To change the regulation further so we have less power to influence the future of our own children.

It is the parents responsiblity to get their children to school properly dressed and it is the schools responsiblity to teach the children. Lets see some responsibilty and accountability from the school first before dictating what the right temperature is for schools to be open. We really need to be able to choose the schools we as parents see fit to teach our kids. One where children come first, not the school board . The board should be ashamed of them selves when you have 54% of grade three students at or above grade level. No wonder many parents are sending their kids to a tutor.