Is that a school board mandated thing, or just the parent's personal choice? Cause snow days and cold days or whatever were always refused by Edmonton Public School Boards, I'd me surprised if you guys up in Yellowknife would. We were however made to have indoor recesses if it was below a certain temp with windchill, at first it started with 20 below, then 25 below, then 30 below, guess they thought we were toughening up over time. I never actually considered lung damage to be a thing from the cold, but yeah I definitely agree -30 and below will burn/freeze your nose, and 40 below will burn your throat and lungs. I remember during lunch recesses in elementary the staff would bring out these 'magic carpets', basically plastic sheets to be used as toboggans down a hill that was in our field. We would form like six lines and would all take turns just sliding down and walking up for the whole recess, good times
We would make ramps at the bottom and they were fine with that, I'm surprised they were what with the van driving soccer moms who can't let their sheltered children have some fun for once. We did get 'pileups' banned, where everyone slides into each other at the bottom of the hill, when one softie broke his collarbone
Now that I think about it there were so many stories made during those winter recesses, man I miss those times
