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NYC schools to go remote Tuesday as Big Apple braces for winter storm
NY Post ^ | 02/12/2024 | Emily Crane

Posted on 02/12/2024 8:54:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

New York City public schools are going remote Tuesday due to a winter storm that is forecast to dump as much as 8 inches of snow on the Big Apple, Mayor Eric Adams said.

“We’re expecting winter weather overnight tonight which could lead to 5-8 inches of snow with locally higher amounts by the morning,” Hizzoner tweeted Monday.

We're expecting winter weather overnight tonight which could lead to 5-8 inches of snow with locally higher amounts by the morning. As a result, all @NYCSchools will move to remote learning tomorrow.

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To: Leaning Right

A friend told me over the weekend that he sat in on one of his son’s “remote learning” days during the glorified flu lockdown. He sat through three hours of absolute nonsense and then reached over and shut off his son’s computer. His kid freaked out and said he’d get a worse grade because they are graded on being logged on. My friend told him that it didn’t matter because they were going to start homeschooling the next day.


21 posted on 02/12/2024 9:47:35 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Climate Change Deniers, we know it will never snow in New York again because of man made global warming.


22 posted on 02/12/2024 9:48:09 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A black man complaining about 8 inches?


23 posted on 02/12/2024 9:49:19 AM PST by MortMan (Corduroy pillows are making headlines.)
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To: Jane Long

Or before “remote”


24 posted on 02/12/2024 9:50:20 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: flair2000

Well, joking about Taylor Swift Day, but no not joking about the school closure.


25 posted on 02/12/2024 9:56:06 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SamAdams76

Sounds like so much fun.

We had snow days, but, not enough snow for sledding...but, a fun day of snowmen and snowball fights. Then, it would all melt, the next day!

We usually had to add on an extra day, at the end of our school year.

And....no one (not the Mayor, not the school superintendent, etc.) called off school days before...we had to wait for the local news to alert us, like you, that morning. They’d announce EARLY ... before Capt Kanagaroo, even.


26 posted on 02/12/2024 10:04:24 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: monkeyshine

🤣 🤮


27 posted on 02/12/2024 10:05:20 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: cyclotic

> He [a student] sat through three hours of absolute nonsense… <

Fortunately, I was an able to retire before remote learning became a thing. I taught high school chemistry and physics. I really don’t know how I could teach those subjects remotely, and still be effective.

Better that a student should log in, then go through a review/learn computer program on the subject. Then if the student gets stuck or has a question, the teacher is summoned and gives a deeper explanation.

Some college courses are taught that way now.


28 posted on 02/12/2024 10:07:01 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Jane Long
What ever did NYC schools do, when these storms hit, before MayOr Adams????

As a retired NYC public school teacher, I'll tell you what ever--it would have to be a blizzard with over a foot of snow and whiteouts, etc. before they would close NYC schools. I remember very well making my way to school at great peril, driving over glazed ice and sliding all over the place. Only to arrive and see only about 25% of the students in attendance. They were all ushered to the auditorium and shown a movie. SO much learning going on! And sometimes the snowplows buried my car and it was impossible to dig it out. So I had to take up to 3 buses to make it to school, standing out on mountains of ice and snow, freezing while waiting for the much-delayed buses. Only to find, again, the same scenario of 25% attendance and movies being shown. There was no academic activity going on, with 75% of the kids absent.

29 posted on 02/12/2024 10:20:02 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Leaning Right

My brother teaches high school. He’s mostly CAD type stuff. During the lockdowns, he had to teach remotely. He had two monitors, one was the subject matter, which was computer aided design work, which he had to pay attention to as he was teaching. The other was camera images of 25-30 students in little boxes.

The subject matter was easy to him as he’d been teaching it for decades. However, at the school, they were using very expensive, high powered expensive software licensed for use in the school on school owned computers only. I think it’s AutoCAD, which many design shops use. Because they couldn’t use school computers, he was teaching with off the shelf, open source free software which he was learning himself just before teaching it.

Wow, and the administration was surprised when one of the students was showing porn to the rest of the class through his camera and my brother didn’t see it. He got in almost as much trouble as the student did. (He was turned in by the other students)

What a freaking joke.


30 posted on 02/12/2024 10:27:11 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: EinNYC

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I too taught in a city school (not NYC). And like you, I had to fight past snowdrifts to make it to work only to see most students absent. That was not always the safest thing, but it was part of the job.

That’s not my beef. My beef is how the new wave wiz-kid principals reacted.

The old-time principals would put notes on our school mailboxes the day after a bad snow. “Thank you for coming in yesterday. I know traveling was difficult.”

The new wiz-kid principals would also put notes on our school mailboxes the day after a bad snow. “This is a reminder that you will be docked a half-day pay for coming in late. Snow is no excuse.”

The interesting thing is that those wiz-kids often did not show up at all on bad travel days. Then they wondered why staff morale was so low.


31 posted on 02/12/2024 10:35:46 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Jane Long

Education is remote probably because they will be storing illegals in schools.


32 posted on 02/12/2024 11:33:36 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: Jane Long
When I was growing up...they shut down/closed school and we played with the snow outside. Of course, that was before the Flood. LOL

Then I was off to boarding school in Pa. and they never closed; the day student were just SOL.

33 posted on 02/12/2024 11:53:50 AM PST by nopardons
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To: SamAdams76
Same thing in NYC!

Are you ready for tonight's "Blizzard"?

I'm praying that we don't lose power.

34 posted on 02/12/2024 11:59:10 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I have a feeling the storm won’t be quite as bad as they make it out to be!


35 posted on 02/12/2024 1:00:35 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76
I'm hoping that THAT is the case!

Why we are supposed to get more snow than Litchfield, I don't understand. And Hartford is supposed to get the most?

36 posted on 02/12/2024 1:04:35 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Weather models shifting the storm further and further south.

Most of Massachusetts may get nothing at all!

And these are the same people predicting climate change!

37 posted on 02/12/2024 1:41:33 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76
I know and EVERY SINGLE STORM, they claim, is utter disaster and THE worst ever!

So I am praying that this one is the same as ALL of the other one, that they all went hysterical over, this winter.

Supposedly NYC, now won't get much at all, so just HOW are WE going to get almost a foot?

38 posted on 02/12/2024 1:46:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
I'm sure you remember back when, but it used to be schools weren't cancelled until the day of the storm.

When I was growing up, they would never cancel school (or anything else) based on a forecast.

They would wait until 5 or 6 am on the day of the storm and make a decision. Many times, we'd go to school and get dismissed at noon if the storm was obviously moving in. But if it wasn't snowing by 6am - we had school!

39 posted on 02/12/2024 2:00:59 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76
Yes, school was NEVER called off BEFORE the storm was ragging! And most of the time, a snow storm wasn't a reason to close school at all. So we trudged to school in snow storms, more often than not.

My great grandmother had lived through the GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888, so I know family stories about what Manhattan was like during that one and the MUSEUM OF NYC used to have a diorama of that blizzard, that captivated my imagination.

But I lived through the Blizzard of 1947 ( which was supposedly almost as bad as the 1888 one ), and though I was a very tiny child, I still have VERY vivid memories of that one.

And I don't remember anyone being hysterical about blizzards, until lately. The CLIMATE LOONS go into hysterics at the drop of a hat now.

40 posted on 02/12/2024 2:18:15 PM PST by nopardons
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