Schools Chancellor David Banks is in the hot seat after students, parents and teachers struggled to gain access to remote learning applications during Tuesday’s snowstorm.
The city’s Department of Education said there were issues with services that require IBM authentication to log in.
Officials blamed the company, saying it was unable to keep up with the surge of nearly 1 million students and staff members logging in at the same time.
Banks has vowed to get to the bottom of the failure of the system. But that meltdown contributed to the debate over whether remote learning should be a thing of the past, or if it should continue to be used as a snow day replacement.
NY1 asked followers on social media: “What’s the better school option for the next storm?”
The responses overwhelmingly favored snow days.
Here are the results of the unofficial poll.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, 96% voted “yes” in favor of snow days and 4% voted “no” in favor of remote learning. On Instagram, 92% voted “yes” in favor of snow days and 8% voted “no” in favor of remote learning.
Alex Zimmerman, a reporter with Chalkbeat, joined “The Rush Hour” on Thursday to weigh in on how “New York is Talking” about remote learning replacing snow days.