School doors remain open after Jonas Blizzard

by Michelle Tejada and Ifra Mahmood, staff reporter

Continuous snowfall lead to the second largest snowstorm in New York City history. Unfortunately this storm caused multiple deaths and left a little over two feet of snow on Saturday, January 23rd.

Two days after Monday morning schools remained open due to Mayor Bill De Blasio‘s decision. A petition was made for Mayor Bill De Blasio so that NYC schools would be closed but it failed to change his mind.

“I think that schools shouldn’t have been open because it was a struggle for many people to come today especially for me. I almost slipped and it’s not safe for people to be out,” seventh grader Layla Rodriguez said.

Bus stop’s had long lines that went around the corner because of the buses being delayed. Buses were also packed with no space to move.

“When the city is telling you to use mass transit and the mass transit is making you wait forty-five minutes for a bus I don’t see the point,” computer technician Mr.Myrtil said.

Although it was difficult for many to attend school that day, many parents can’t afford to miss work to stay with their kids. This argument is a reason why the Mayor had decided to keep schools open.

“I realize that it’s important for us educators to be here because a lot of parents need to go to work so that’s really the real reason why. Usually the NYCDOE doesn’t close schools but I do understand that it really was unsafe and we should at least have had a delay in opening to insure that not only the school but the surrounding areas around the school were safe for kids to come to school,” Assistant Principal Ms. Cuesta said.