Making kids do remote schooling on ‘snow days’ sucks — get off the screens and go touch snow

The forecast is grim for New York City school kids. On Friday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that, no matter how many inches ...

Remote learning is not for the weak — here’s how a day of it went thanks to Mamdani’s no-snow day verdict

By 8:30 a.m., sacred objects lined the newly clean playroom desk: a Labubu knockoff, a karaoke microphone, half a geode, a ...
Education Week

How Remote Learning Has Changed the Traditional Snow Day

In New Jersey, the state restricts the circumstances in which remote learning can be used. State law generally mandates ...
Chalkbeat

Snow day or ‘screen’ day? NYC to pivot to remote learning if winter storm hits, chancellor confirms

Even the chancellor’s own son is pushing for a return to traditional snow days, but Kamar Samuels said the city is sticking ...

Why ‘Remote learning’ is a lie no matter WHAT the weather is

Thank the teachers union, and Mayor Eric Adams’ team, for what was surely a lost day of learning for many school kids Monday.

NYC schools closed Monday due to snow storm, all students will do remote learning, Mamdani says

It’s no way to spend a snow day. Mayor Zohran Mamdani put the freeze on any hopes of an old fashioned snow day Sunday, announcing that kids would have to attend remote classes because of Winter Storm ...
Gothamist

Remote learning redux has parents longing for solution to packed NYC schools calendar

Some teachers asked students to write a poem about the snow and leave school early to get artistic inspiration.