When I was a kid in the 1970s, no words broadcast on KDKA radio were sweeter than: “Bethel Park School District — closed.”

The moment we heard them, we threw on our snow gear and headed for the sled slopes, determined to squeeze every free second out of a stolen weekday break.

Most kids in New York City will never know this rite of passage.

Sure, Mayor Zohran Mamdani shuttered schools on Monday, Jan. 26, because of snow — but he also mandated that children attend classes remotely, using a multi-million-dollar virtual learning system the city built in 2021 during the peak of COVID.

“It’s not going to be a traditional snow day — that is a determination we’ve made,” said Mamdani, slipping into the third-person gobbledygook socialist Democrats use when they’re really saying “snow days are an inconvenience for me!”

Across the border in Connecticut, meanwhile, school districts from Greenwich to Vernon took the opposite approach.

They preserved........

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