Ontario commits $5.2M to expand bed capacity at Peterborough Regional Health Centre “In the past, if we had bad weather, snow and icy weather, and the transportation in our system wasn’t running, we kept the schools open and of course, whoever could make it to the schools safely, teachers and students, would arrive in our buildings.”But due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the board has opted to keep the schools closed those days.Hahn said the “normal procedure” in elementary schools with a “varying number of kids” due to inclement weather is to combine classes if a teacher couldn’t make it to school, “and obviously they would do their best for the day to keep the learning moving.”“That would involve mixing cohorts of kids and that is.