Staten Island kids learned next to nothing on Tuesday — with roughly 70% of borough students taking off the day after one of the biggest blizzards in NYC history.
Staten Island was slammed hardest of the five boroughs with some neighborhoods seeing nearly 30 inches of snow, causing public-school absentee rates there to skyrocket to a jaw-dropping 69.8% — more than double the same-day citywide average of 36.8%, according to city Department of Education data.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s cold-as-ice decision to re-open schools rather to switch to remote learning fueled a blizzard of backlash on the “Forgotten Borough,” where critics say he conveniently ignored that the borough’s single rail line was out of service and underestimated the difficulty of plowing snow from its many hilly and narrow roads.
“This is going to go down, along with new Coke and the decision to put hydrogen in the Hindenburg instead of helium, as one of the worst decisions in history,” said Councilman Frank Morano (R-Staten Island)…