Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
44% say it s too little. highest number of the three. at the bottom sexual orientation and gender is at 48% in the too much column. that s what we re finding from americans that we polled just this week. gillian: that reading metric, bill, that lydia was talking about is the fundamental key to everything else. if you can t read proficiently in third grade, as you mentioned before, you are probably not going to graduate high school or be able to do math, science or any other academic subject. bill: we ll see what comes up next wednesday on stage in milwaukee. we have this now. gillian: president biden preparing to host the leaders of japan and south korea later today. the first gathering of world leaders during his term at his country retreat. his goal and the goal of all the three countries is to present the united front against the growing military and economic threats posed by china.