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Zohran Mamdani says NYC kids can forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter the forecast
New York Post ^ | Jan. 23, 2026 | Craig McCarthy, Vaughn Golden and Emily Crane

Posted on 01/23/2026 12:26:22 PM PST by nickcarraway

Nearly 1 million kids in the New York City school system could be forced in front of the screens for remote learning Monday, Mayor Mamdani said Friday — even though Hizzoner could reinstate traditional snow days his predecessors nixed.

Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has already said could dump more than a foot of snow across the Big Apple.

“I know to the disappointment of any student that’s watching this right now, Monday is either going to be a remote learning day or it’s going to be an in-person school day,” Mamdani said on NY1 on Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: mamdani; snowday; weather; zoltarspeaks

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He could create a lot of enemies this way. I'd say a lot of parents might like it - but if it ends up being remote learning, a lot of parents hate that.


And the kids, if it's anything like when I was in school he will be a villain. They may decide not to become Democratic Socialists for life.

1 posted on 01/23/2026 12:26:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What are the chances he and his staff show up for “work?”


2 posted on 01/23/2026 12:27:58 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: nickcarraway

“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch...”


3 posted on 01/23/2026 12:28:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Even Boris Karloff couldn’t play Mamdani.


4 posted on 01/23/2026 12:31:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Huh. In my day we had to mush the huskies up the mountain through -90F wind chill and gnaw on frozen hardtack for lunch. Kids these days...


5 posted on 01/23/2026 12:32:12 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s a far cry from Mayor LaGuardia reading the comics over the radio, during the newspaper delivery strike.


6 posted on 01/23/2026 12:41:27 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Billthedrill

In my day we tuned into th local radio station and rejoiced on hearing our school was closed. It was the best. My mother was not as excited about it. But she was a sport

It was a sleigh riding day.

In high school the boys would get the VW bugs running, do don’t and we’d make our way over to the golf course through the break in the chain link fence. We figured out snowboarding. Met the kids from the other schools -public v catholic

It was a day off. Give the kids some fun and social time

People don’t watch enough Ferris Bueller


7 posted on 01/23/2026 12:41:36 PM PST by stanne
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To: nickcarraway

Back home in the Middle East, they don’t take snow days, so these infidels won’t either.


8 posted on 01/23/2026 12:41:52 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: unixfox

Next to none.


9 posted on 01/23/2026 12:44:10 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: stanne

Oh, yeah. We loved snow days. Ironically, the best place to find a snowball fight was...in the schoolyard.


10 posted on 01/23/2026 12:44:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

Need the head count to collect the federal dollars.


11 posted on 01/23/2026 12:45:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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“ Oh, yeah. We loved snow days. Ironically, the best place to find a snowball fight was...in the schoolyard.”

Not a big favorite w the nuns. Anyone got caught loading it with a rock- forget it. The principal- a fierce nun- and then Dad. Who instructed us early on. No one did that.

I was thinking of that while viewing coverage of Minneapolis nonsense. Reporter saying -they’re throwing snowballs. Em… no. They were rocks packed with snow


12 posted on 01/23/2026 12:49:19 PM PST by stanne
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He could create a lot of enemies this way.


Don’t be silly. The kids will be enjoying the ‘warmth of collectivism’. /s


13 posted on 01/23/2026 12:51:32 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: nickcarraway

cantore talking to the commie

https://x.com/weatherchannel/status/2014765071600091438


14 posted on 01/23/2026 12:55:52 PM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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Will they be required to wear masks during remote learning? Ah the good old days...


15 posted on 01/23/2026 12:56:47 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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The guys an idiot.


16 posted on 01/23/2026 1:02:18 PM PST by exPBRrat
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Please, please, there is no honor to the present “hizhonor”.
His brain is of such emptiness that not even quantum activity occurs there.


17 posted on 01/23/2026 1:05:34 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Please, please, there is no honor to the present “hizhonor”.

Hizhorror.

18 posted on 01/23/2026 1:09:44 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: nickcarraway

Have you ever wondered how they were going to force the kids into the total control of the digital empire to be run by evil.


19 posted on 01/23/2026 1:11:10 PM PST by Revel
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Kids could greatly increase their chances of getting a snow day if they all flush ice cubes down the toilet and the same time ... and ... wear their pajamas inside out and backwards ... and ... sleep with their heads at the foot of the bed. There are others, but I can’t remember now. Effing commie.


20 posted on 01/23/2026 1:12:44 PM PST by KingLudd
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