Sir.–A snow day can make things difficult, particularly for the working parent. When schools close for snow days, some parents lose a day’s work and that can mean losing a day’s pay.

So when I heard Hatch Warren schools were going to open their doors to allow working parents to go back to work, I thought, at last some ‘common sense’.

Keeping the health and safety of the students at the forefront, they clearly felt a whole body of students wouldn’t be safe, but it was important to find a balance to help parents.

Having read your article on January 24, right, it was once again a proven point that you can’t please everyone. On this occasion it wasn’t the working parents complaining – it was the stay-at-home parents.

Maybe these parents really did have pressing engagements they had to put off to another day, I don’t know, but I, like many other stay-at-home mums found time to play with my children and have fun in the snow.

The article suggested that the school changed their policy in line with other schools in the area and reopened to all parents for the rest of the week. I doubt their reason to reopen was anything other than the fact that the paths where clear enough to safely allow the students return to school.

We are always complaining that nobody uses common-sense any more, so let’s not take a swipe when someone actually does.

–Tara Deakin, Parent of children at both HWJS and HWIS, Rycroft Meadow, Beggarwood, Basingstoke.