What ever did NYC schools do, when these storms hit, before MayOr Adams????
All my life in Alabama I’ve heard northerners poke fun at us for shutting down when it snows.
After Bloomberg, the schools would just be closed and there would be no remote. But after the pandemic, snow days became a thing of the past.
The decision would be made the morning of. The local TV and radio stations would then announce all the towns and school systems that decided to close, starting as early as 5am.
My parents were always perplexed (and a little annoyed) that us kids would get up at 5am all by ourselves just to find out if we had school or not. On a regular school day, it was a challenge to get us up and off to school on time!
Most school systems in the Northeast would build at least five "snow days" into the school calendar. If those days were not all used up, we would start our summer vacations earlier. But we always wanted to get the snow days we felt we had coming to us.
When a snow day was called, all the kids bundled up and went outdoors. We went sledding, built snow forts, had snowball fights. Then come inside for hot chocolate. It was always great having a snow day.
Or before “remote”
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.
Education is remote probably because they will be storing illegals in schools.
Then I was off to boarding school in Pa. and they never closed; the day student were just SOL.