No More Snow Days For NYC Schools This Year, Chancellor Confirms

NEW YORK CITY — Snow days won't part of New York City's public school year that kicks off Thursday, the city's top education official said.

Chancellor David Banks confirmed this week during a FOX5 interview that snow days for the 2022-23 school year will be replaced by remote learning days.

"There are technically no more snow days," he said, to exaggerated laments from FOX5 hosts.

"Sorry, kids, there's going to be no more snow days. But it's going to be good for you."

Banks' confirmation isn't necessarily a surprise.

Education officials during the 2021-22 school year scrapped snow days under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who declared himself "sad" the seasonal tradition for nearly one million young New Yorkers could be gone.

But de Blasio and other officials stressed that huge steps forward in remote learning forced by the COVID-19 pandemic made snow days unnecessary.

Banks himself copped to once harboring some mixed feelings about nixing snow days.

"But with the new technology that we have, it's one of the good things to come out of COVID," he said on FOX 5.

Not all Twitter users saw a bright, fluffy side to no more snow days.

"That was the best part of school," tweeted @rachelblairrr_.

"NYC cancelling snow days is a sin," tweeted @Joemet123.