Parents mock `wimp´ teachers for taking day off as thousands of schools shut due to snow
(World News UK)

PARENTS have slammed teachers after thousands of schools were closed because of snow this morning. Birmingham City Council has been forced to cancel all council-run school and related transport services on Monday, the authority said. SWNS:South West News Service 1 > More than 200 schools will also be closed in Gloucestershire, and more than 100 in Shropshire. In Wales around 50 schools are closed, including 71 schools are closed in Flintshire, 11 in Wrexham and 49 in Denbighshire. Graham White, of the National Education Union, defended the closures, saying schools are not there for ‘childminding’. He said: `Headteachers are in an impossible situation... open and risk injury to...