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

It’s a sour taste for students in New York City, but one that was expected: the city announced that students will have remote learning Monday and not a traditional snow day. The announcement Sunday comes as no surprise given that the nation’s largest school district officially ended it traditional snow day system when it began the 2022-23 school year.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said schools will either remain open for in-person instruction on Monday or shift to remote learning if school buildings are closed.

What a cold call! Mayor Zohran Mamdani is telling New York City kids to forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter how devastating the forecast is. 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.

New York City public school staff and students should expect classes to continue on Monday regardless of the incoming snowstorm, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Questions are mounting over whether NYC public schools could close or shift to remote learning if heavy snow materializes.

The models are aligning. A massive winter storm is expected to drop up to 16 inches of snow on New York City Sunday into Monday, threatening to shut down parts of the five boroughs in what will be the biggest test of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to date.