After a long snow drought, New Yorkers on Tuesday got a reminder about how quickly the fresh white stuff becomes slippery and gross — and how quickly grand political rhetoric becomes slippery and gross, too.

Every part of the public school’s slushy “remote learning” debacle was an indictment of the shrinking system and a mildly traumatic flashback for parents, kids and school staff to the lost pandemic year.

“We feel really good about this,” Schools Chancellor David Banks said on Monday. “It’s one of the good things that, in fact, emerged from the pandemic, was our preparedness to be ready for moments like this.”

But on Tuesday morning, students and teachers logging in were sent to a “Service unavailable” page. Not good!

That apparently counts as a teachable moment for parents, according to Mayor Adams, who hasn’t said much about pandemic learning loss generally but was all about it at Monday’s press conference with Banks where he declared that “we need to minimize how many days our children are just sitting at home making snowmen.”

It takes a special sort of parent to think kids make snowmen while sitting at........

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