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Example just didn't pay me. i'm great i things are going better here. in lesotho one in 3 boys of school age works full time as a livestock herder often miles away from their family and without any hope of going to school full time most of the boys are illiterate and will likely remain so for the rest of their lives. you know your smile row is familiar with the situation you have to leave school after 2nd grade money so you could look after his mother and 2 sisters. he says that's common in lesotho but it wasn't the life he had hoped for. maintenance. but because of the. 2 and living on the bi...

When he was five, they moved to montreal, but they spent summers at the family cottage in long beach, new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. >> i don't think i owned a shirt until i was 21. all of the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother is shirtless, i am. we're outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that is where i got all of my knowledge was reading. >> of course there was reading and studying. shull em krauthammer who spoke nine languages carried their stellar 2nd grade report card in his pocke...

Should be, about in october, november of kindergarten. >> kinder garden, levon is nearly two full years behind. >> levon. >> to get on level, he needs to cram three years of learning into 195 days of 2nd grade. it may seem impossible. >> question mark. >> you knew it was that bad? >> i didn't know it was exactly that bad. i had been helping him at home. >> levon's mother, erica, says she's been teaching levon and reading with him since he was a baby. but since kindergarten, school has been a tortureous experience. >> the teacher said i'm one teacher with 26 students. have you considered holdin...

>> we need six classrooms. >> it's squeezing into this place with harvest prep and best academy. and starting at kindergarten to 2nd grade. among the 2nd graders, levon longstreet. he's 7 years old and this will be his fourth school. for eric mahmoud, it will be another front to improve education for poor black children in minneapolis. does it feel like a battle to you? >> every day. having to justify how we do things. >> how does he do things? highly structured, longer days. >> excellent job. >> a longer school year, an afro sent rick structure and lots of testing. all that has critics chargi...

Their way to fly. have you ever read this book? it's called "duck on a bike." it looks like it's about a duck on a bike. that's kind of silly. ready? >> uh-huh. >> one day -- >> day. >> levon longstreet is 7 years old. he's about to start 2nd grade. >> it was -- do you recognize that word? it was fun. wow. want me to read this page?