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Related: About this forumAl Roker blasts Mayor de Blasio on Twitter for not cancelling school
By Annie Karni AND Irving Dejohn / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Al Roker can add political pundit to his resume.
The NBC weatherman, who normally has a rather sunny disposition, traded icy barbs with Mayor de Blasio Thursday for Hizzoners handling of Thursdays snow storm.
I knew this am @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools would close schools. Talk about a bad prediction. Long range DiBlasio (sic) forecast: 1 term, the Today show forecaster tweeted.
Roker, who also blasted Atlanta officials for their bungled response to last months winter storm that crippled the area, said his daughter was dismissed early from her school.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/al-roker-blasts-mayor-de-blasio-twitter-cancelling-school-article-1.1613110#ixzz2tEFVixU7
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)It's a key point; kids with parents who only get paid if they physically go to work being left to care for and feed themselves. Not an easy call for any Mayor. It would be nice if there were an adult discussion about all this, but that doesn't start with a snarky tweet from a celebrity weartherman in Sochi:
"If people can go to work, then kids can to school. Many of our kids don't get a hot lunch and, in many cases breakfast, unless they go to school. So it's still a parent's decision whether they send their kids to school or not. My decision is where the kids are safest and the most taken care of, and the answer to that is in schools."
Parents, Farina suggested, could decide for themselves if the risk was worth taking. In other words: Roker, whose children one presumes got to eat a full breakfast, could have kept his kids at home...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)doesn't explain why forcing teachers and school workers to go out in conditions the city itself has described as dangerous is a good idea, nor does it explain how eating a pbj sandwich for lunch is as dangerous as heading out in traffic.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I wonder if DeBlasio is aware that Staten Island and areas without significant subway access exist.