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
In a briefing yesterday one of the issues that they re negotiating is whether or not we ll insert the word china. we re still discussing how and how much we describe china in the tri lateral documents. what do you think of that negotiating tactic going in? well, bill, it s pretty clear we heard mr. kirby say this isn t really about china. the truth of the matter is this meeting is all about the threat from the chinese communist party. i think it s great these leaders are getting together, the south koreans, japanese and americans are working on the strategic threat. but less important the process issues, far less importance than the substance. if they talk and nothing comes from it the chinese will view it as an accelerator of the risk to the united states and to the west. but if they come out with a set of understandings. things we ll do together to build our economies and push back against the various military and naval threats in