Drop this insulting Election Day remote-learning farce

Parents are rightly furious over the city’s Election Day remote-learning farce.

Election Day has long been an NYC school holiday, but the Department of Education this year opted to make it a mandatory remote session, taking many families by surprise and giving kids only a remote chance of learning anything, even without the technical glitches.

It’s pretty obvious the DOE just wanted to be able to count it toward the state’s required 180 instructional days without actually having to instruct much.

The city’s committed to observing ever-more holidays for different faiths and so on, while the teachers’ contract mandates an absurd number of no-school day for “teacher training,” so the educrats decided to just short change the kids.

Virtual school is virtually useless, and few DOE schools even try to make it work, let alone do a thing about the many kids who don’t even bother to log in, skipping to pig out on Halloween candy.

Yet dutiful parents had to take off from work to oversee pointless and unchallenging busywork — when Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims that supporting child care is a top priority.

In six years since remote school “work” started in the pandemic, the DOE hasn’t remotely figured out how to make it work to engage students an entire 6-hour school day; the educrats just talk about it succeeding, without offering a whit of proof.

Cut some other school-closed days, or find a safe way to unlock the school doors on Election Day: Just quit the con job.