{"id":1624491,"date":"2022-08-28T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624491"},"modified":"2022-08-28T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:33:27","slug":"ny-gov-admits-remote-learning-during-pandemic-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-admits-remote-learning-during-pandemic-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Admits Remote Learning During Pandemic &#8220;A Mistake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-gov-admits-remote-learning-during-pandemic-a-mistake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nyc\">New York<\/a> Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kathy-hochul\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> on Friday said it was \u201ca mistake\u201d to close schools and move to remote learning during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic, citing the impact of resulting job losses on New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kHJVXeuL1y4?t=1000\">speech<\/a> at the University of Albany commemorating Women\u2019s Equality Day,\u00a0Hochul, a Democrat, shared her aspirations \u201cto get women back to where they were\u201d before the onset of the pandemic two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This would start, she said, with a broad study of COVID-19\u2019s impact on New York\u2019s women, employers, and \u201ceverybody\u201d affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to peel back every dynamic and let\u2019s look at, not just in the workplace, but what happened to women when the decisions were made to have all the kids go home and learn remotely,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. Wow, what a mistake that was. What a mistake that was. Women couldn\u2019t go to their jobs. They lost their jobs. Or they thought they were back at their jobs and one child in a classroom tests positive, the whole class goes home for a week and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York governor described the disrupted education delivery as \u201cnothing short of chaos\u201d and noted that \u201cit just seems to have not ended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul vowed to \u201cget to the bottom\u201d of what happened by holding hearings across the state to hear from New Yorkers, including women, employers, and \u201ceverybody,\u201d with an aim to avoid an \u201cunfair\u201d pandemic response that results in job losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to figure out how it happened and make sure that we have the procedures in place so women are in a far better place, and don\u2019t let it happen again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2>All New York COVID-19 School Restrictions End<\/h2>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s remarks come days after she announced on Monday the lifting of all COVID-19 restrictions in New York schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days of sending an entire classroom home because one person was symptomatic or tests positive, those days are over,\u201d Hochul said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>This comes weeks after\u00a0the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped quarantine and social distancing recommendations for close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, if a student tests positive for COVID-19, other children in the classroom who don\u2019t have symptoms will remain in school as long as they wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo longer are we going to be sending kids home, keeping them away from that essential experience of being together in the classroom, because we are now still dealing with the fallout of those decisions made when we had less information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Will Barclay, leader of the New York State Assembly Republican Conference, expressed his support for Hochul\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a plan to follow common-sense and science New York is finally taking a step to put children first,\u201d Barclay\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillABarclay\/status\/1561789802504019968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cStudents deserve every opportunity to succeed in their education and that begins inside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul was second in charge under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he ordered schools to shut down on March 18, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Schools would go on to operate in a hybrid fashion for the next two years, switching between in-person and remote learning as COVID-19 cases popped up.<\/p>\n<p>This approach resulted in\u00a0\u201csuicide rates, depression, real mental health issues that were not there before for many of these children,\u201d according to Hochul, who\u00a0described the situation as deeply troubling. She stressed the importance of in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hannah Ng contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-caden-pearson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38ce23ace09f12718ad757e5cb92eca2\" alt=\"Caden Pearson\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Caden Pearson is a reporter based in Australia. Contact him on caden.pearson@epochtimes.com.au<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Gov. 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