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Jen Chung
Published Mar 3, 2009
Modified Mar 3, 2009
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Yesterday's rare snow day with the Department of Education closing public schools was a blessing for children and a mess for parents. One mother told the Post, "When I found out it was a snow day, it was too late to make arrangements. When you count on school every day, it's hard to find people to take care of your kids. Had I known [Sunday] afternoon, it might have been easier."
The Post also reports, "For Bloomberg, it was a snow-win situation. Knowing that so many parents depend on the schools to take care of their kids, the city waited until the last possible moment, 5:39 a.m.," noting how the city had called the 2004 snow day the day before. However, Mayor Bloomberg's response was, “If you got up this morning, looked outside and the question didn’t come to you right away, hmm, I wonder whether or not school is going to be open today, and you didn’t know enough to call 311, I would suggest another day in school’s probably a good idea. I mean, c’mon.” (Related: Bloomberg's empathy.)
One Staten Island resident said of yesterday's 8 inches of accumulation, "In Buffalo, they'd be laughing at us. This is like a regular afternoon to them."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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