heaped snow on the five boroughs<\/a> Sunday. A number of them were private school students who had a traditional snow day.<\/p>\nMany public schools\u2019 grades 6 through 12 had pre-scheduled professional development, so those students had the day off, while the rest had virtual learning.<\/p>\n
Charter school teacher Craig Applegate was in Central Park with his young kids.<\/p>\n
“We just finished midterms, so we were just going to be a teacher day, but they were like, ‘Hey, it’s snowing \u2014 go play with your kids,'” he said.<\/p>\n
He said virtual learning is \u201cno fun for teachers or for students,\u201d as it is difficult to keep students focused, but maintained that it is a \u201cuseful tool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Applegate thinks the city Department of Education should reserve days in the calendar for snow days, saying he feels \u201cterrible\u201d for kids who had virtual school today.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet the kids have fun at least one day a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jack Meyer attends a public school and is in the fifth grade. His mom decided to let him play hooky and take him sledding instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think most people know, but most moms won’t do that. So, I mean, this is why I love my mom. My mom’s the best,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sledding has been perfect. There’s a little jump over there. I caught so much air time that I actually got the wind knocked out of me. So this has been a perfect day for sledding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sledding wasn\u2019t the only activity getting people\u2019s heart rates up in Central Park on Monday. The loop around the park was cleared for walkers and runners.<\/p>\n
Hank Manning paused his Strava at the 1.35-mile mark to talk to NY1. He planned to run 4 miles around the park.<\/p>\n
Manning said the loop is not slippery.<\/p>\n
“You just have to dress for it,” he said. “And luckily they plow this quickly, so it’s no problem running.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sledder named Graham couldn’t contain his excitement while sledding in Central Park on Monday, telling NY1, \u201cThis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2296,25,1434,3691,231,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,27,200,133],"class_list":["post-113797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-weather","tag-emma-barnett","tag-human-interest","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}