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
Week and a half ago as the fires raged on lahaina, the historic town. let s listen to what the chief said just two days ago defending the fact that he did not have those sirens put into place. the sirens i mentioned earlier is used primarily for sue nam east. i had sounded the siren that night we were afraid people would have gone to the mountain. if that was the case they would have gone into the fire. you look at some of this drone video from lahaina, the historic town used to be 12,000 people. you see the cars that are burned out and the sea wall there. many of the people that escaped got out of those vehicles, jumped the sea wall and ended up in the pacific ocean waiting upwards for 6 and 7 hours inhaling the smoke. others unfortunately died right