Posted on 09/07/2022 5:12:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Big Apple students will be forced to hunker down in front of their screens — instead of enjoying a snow day outdoors — when the winter weather is at its worst this year, Schools Chancellor David Banks said Tuesday.
“There are technically no more snow days,” Banks said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” ahead of the start of the 2022-23 school year Thursday.
“With the new technology that we have — that’s one of the good things that came out of COVID — if a snow day comes around, we want to make sure that our kids continue to learn.”
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Going to school is obviously just too much trouble. Having schools is too much trouble too.
They won’t show up for Zoom. The teacher will just show a video on Zoom and call it a day.
I am surprised the teachers agreed to that. They like snow days, too
As a kid I realized I was trading a beautiful day in June for a crappy day in February.
Another good thing is getting groceries delivered....Have no problem giving someone $5 to get the stuff to my door....especially in winter here in Upstate NY.
why assess us property taxes for brick and mortar buildings and lots of tenured teachers ...???
As a kid I realized I was trading a beautiful day in June for a crappy day in February.
True. But, waking up to snow fall and finding out your school is on the list, of closed schools, priceless.
I thought it only added days, if it went over a certain amount, which it usually didn’t?
I remember getting picked up in a full VW bug. Going out to the back fence of the country club, squishing through a tear in the chain link fence and meeting up with about I don’t know 30? 50? Baby boomers. Snowboards we’re new. Toboggans flexible flyers
Smoking cigs. A little beer
I am sure the teachers and the nuns were happy to stay in and watch daytime
Just take a retreat It’s good for morale and for dreaming and planning
Socializing is educational. How to get along. You have to do it in the workplace. It’s good for family life and buildings community
I know all those people now. Some live there and commute into NYC some with pretty good jobs nice houses kids who know my kids
We got to know each other a little bit better on a day like that
But it wasn’t in keeping with communism. So this is the outcome
God gave us snow days. You can’t skate, mom won’t let you stay in. Sledding it is. It’s social
Well Ferris Bueller is a classic not for nothing.
Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it
A lot of times we who lived in town had to go to school while the ones who lived in the country stayed home if too much snow
No matter what...all they have to do is fulfill “x” number of days. They take it off the front or back..whatever works. As long as it doesn’t cut into the 2 1/2 months off...and how many holidays now??
I wonder how much of the decision had to do with getting more aid with fewer days off.
“But, waking up to snow fall and finding out your school is on the list, of closed schools, priceless.”
Snow is silent. Maybe a little inf throwing a tree against the outside wall in a real storm but you don’t know anything until you or one of your siblings calls out an outstanding report from a glowing window. You huddle for Tge local radio and hear your school made the list. Aghhh joy! Mom lights up another cig, gets another pot of coffee going, sits at Tge kitchen table in sad denial. Her day is gone
That’s worth one more sweaty count down day in June that ends up late in the afternoon wearing in your bare feet. Meeting the new lifeguard
Easy.
A crappy day in February with a day off from school was like heaven for a kid.
Some of my fondest memories was waking up at 6am (I'd never get up that early for actual school) on a morning when snow was predicted and flipping on the radio to catch the no-school announcements. When my town was called, I'd do the happy dance and would look forward to a day of sledding, building snow forts and shoveling out the neighbors driveway for a dollar or two. I'd then come home for my mother's hot chocolate and oatmeal with raisins.
There were of course also days when the predicted snowstorm never came to be. It either went out to sea or turned to rain. That was soul-crushing, having to trudge off to school after thinking you were going to get the day off.
I am surprised the teachers agreed to that. They like snow days, too
But usually, the night before the snow is supposed to hit, you spend a restless night. Two or three times you wake up and look out the window, and then there used to be the wait for the phone call.
C’mon blizzard! Global warming doancha know...
But I thought our children would never see snow again? @David Viner, scuuuuz meet, Dr David Viner.
My mom didn’t smoke, but that’s what I’m talking ‘bout.
One of the best memories of childhood.
I would go to bed at 9:30 and really hope for snow.
The forecasts were very hit and miss. Waking at 6:30 and looking outside to see a winter wonderland was just marvelous.
Immediately went to the radio to listen for county closings.
Get a good bowl of cheerios and break out the sled.
Meet all the neighbor kids and break out the sled, make a number of days of it. It took quite some time for any clearing.
The peaceful silence of snow is quite a great memory.
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