Guest Column: No snow day for NYC kids |
When I was a kid in the 1970s, no words broadcast on KDKA radio were sweeter than: “Bethel Park School District – closed.”
The moment we heard them, we threw on our snow gear and headed for the sled slopes, determined to squeeze every free second out of a stolen weekday break.
Most kids in New York City will never know this rite of passage.
Sure, Mayor Zohran Mamdani shuttered schools on Monday, Jan. 26, because of snow – but he also mandated that children attend classes remotely, using a multi-million-dollar virtual learning system the city built in 2021 during the peak of COVID.
“It’s not going to be a traditional snow day – that is a determination we’ve made,” said Mamdani, slipping into the third-person gobbledygook socialist Democrats use when they’re really saying “snow days are an inconvenience for me!”
Across the border in Connecticut, meanwhile, school districts from Greenwich to........