country for generations. new wall street journal polls showing patriotism, religious faith, having children and hard work have declined in importance to americans. check this out, patriotism plummeted over the past 25 years. back in 1998, 70% of those surrendered ranked it as being very important to them. now just 38% feel that way. more than 60% said religion was important. today less than 40%. and family values like having children also have dropped sharply. in 1998, 59% of americans believed having children was very important. now just 30% do. the polls are not entirely surprising, we have seen the deterioration of america s core values. distortion of the american flag, as symbol of patriotism to one of oppression. kneeling for national anthem, that was applauded, pretty widely. the kneeling of a christian high school football coach in prayer on another football field, that got him fired. meanwhile children are being taught that america is systemically racist and for those
you will see an onslaught of places for parents to go because children can t roam on their own. they are very young. so, we are waiting now for the definite, the definitive situation for those three children who were shot. and as we learned their ages and more information about them we ll bring them to you live. i am going to ask my team is johnathan serri has pulled into place here. in nashville, you know, kayleigh, you and i were talking about this, it s a tight christian community. this is a christian school. so, this is reverberating as any school shooting would, and i don t want to say that this is different in that sense, other than the fact that the community there among the christian schools is very tight. yes, you know, i m on the website for this covenant school. and one of the questions is, why choose a preschool through 6th grade school. the answer is, the beauty of a is the simplicity and innocence, students are free to be
he s an engineer turned educator, who oversees harvest prep, a coed kindergarten through 6th grade school. and best academy, a kindergarten through eighth grade school with separate classes for boys and girls. what percentage of this school is african-american? 99% of the students are african-american. 92% are free and reduced lunch. so poor black kids? and successful. i m going to share with you the preliminary results. when the math scores of mahmoud s students are compared to white kids in minneapolis, there are gaps. but it s mahmoud s students who are ahead. at best academy, his students are six points ahead of the white average. at harvest prep, his students
pass proficiency tests and the percentage of black kids who pass those same tests. in minneapolis, the achievement gaps are massive. in reading, white students are ahead of black students by 44 points. in math, white students are ahead of black students by 49 points. i believe i can fly but there are two schools that get stellar outcomes for black children. they are charter schools, run by this man, eric mahmoud. he s an engineer turned educator, who oversees harvest prep, a coed kindergarten through 6th grade school.