Across the New York City region, school districts are struggling to recover from the Halloween weekend snow storm that has played havoc with their calendars, forcing them to cancel classes, games, club meetings and fall celebrations, and to deplete their inventory of snow days long before winter sets in.
For students, it has meant sudden freedom, combined with foreboding that they may have to pay later. For parents, it has been a maddening scramble to juggle work schedules or line up sitters.
The timing was particularly unfortunate for seniors planning to apply to colleges, coming in the midst of deadlines for early-decision applicants. At least 76 colleges have pushed back their deadlines because of the storm.
-- New York Times
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