As eastern Conn. schools go remote, balance sought to keep snow days Earlier this year, when a snowstorm closed down school for her three children, Cathy Walden Waselik utilized the best of both a traditional snow day and remote learning day. “Three kids, three different schools...all had distance learning yesterday and today,” she wrote on Facebook earlier this month. “They went outside around lunch and again after school. And now they don't have to make it up in June.” Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic and with the onslaught of remote learning, another of America’s favorite pastimes is teetering on getting quashed: the snow day.