children if we move them along. but what we don't realize is that we're so focused on how to make kids feel good, that we're actually not teaching them how to read and do math, which is really what is going to make them feel proud of themselves. >> well, if you can donate double-digit multiple multiplication, you can't further equations. sometimes when you're doing econometrics, you're going, please, what's going on here? but when you're in high school, the most important time in your life to get english, math, and some science, if you don't get it there, you're not going to go to college, and if you do, you'll get a second-rate opportunity because you don't know what you're doing. >> that's right. one of the most disturbing things that would happen to me on a regular basis, kids that would graduate from the d.c. public schools and go on to college would come back and say, i got all as and was the valedictorian, but now i'm in remedial classes. i thought i was doing everything right, but now i'm in college and they're telling me i don't