so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we re the allens. we re better than that, you
with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we re the allens. we re better than that, you know?
schools are generally the safest places in communities. and until we as a nation are really willing to take on the larger issue of violence in our broader communities, schools will continue to have some challenges. secretary of education arne duncan. of course, christine romans will be talking to him later today about this and so many other important issues. this is not what should be facing our school children. no. there are enough issues in education right now, they don t have to be dealing with this. and this young woman on anders anderson last night, these kids, they learn cpr, learn first aid. they don t think they ll have to use it in their own school hallways. no. wish they were learning math. i wish that s what they could pay attention to. stay tuned throughout the morning for continuing coverage of this story. we re back out this morning searching for the elusive pings that might be coming from flight 370 s black box on the bottom of the indian ocean after the
for help. with math. you add 6 to 18 and it gives you the next answer. it s great. i m not embarrassed when she helps me. i sit there and listen to her because i know shy ain t judging me and stuff. i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do
turnout in the presidential elections. we have a lot of people going to the polls. right. so that would say well, they are interested in their country. they do want to participate in democracy. yet, they don t know a thing. how do you explain that? well, no, i think people do want to participate. i do think a lot of times people are not as informed as everybody would like them to be. frankly, a federal judge in virginia last week got the declaration of independence and the constitution mixed up in a ruling which was got quite a lot of coverage. i m not sure i am so surprised about other folks getting these kind of things wrong. backlash toll problems where people take to whom schooling or home schools or private schools to circumvent what s going on in public schools when it s not working for them. it s not about learning creationism at home it s about learning math. again, that s a different issue. the issue of at least