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Question, do that. but i'm going to encourage people to flood this nonsense with the great and amazing things that are happening. how about that teacher who is able to increase that child's reading level? what about that teacher who understands that that child is coming to school hungry? >> you want them to call and talk about those things. >> absolutely. >> i've got to go, but thank you, president. i really appreciate you joining us this evening. >> thank you for having us. >> best of luck. >> thank you, thank you. >> so, i dare he. do you know what president biden did? he got ice cream! and ...

>> in reading, 620 patterson high school students took the test. 484 of them, or 77% tested at an elementary school reading level. that includes 71 high school students who are reading at a kindergarten level, and 88 students reading at a first grade level. another 45 are reading at a second grade level. just 12 students tested at patterson high school were reading at grade level. that comes out to less than 2%. >> tucker: so the kids can't read. if they are illiterate. what does their future look like? what does baltimore's future look like? what does the country's future -- how are they goin...

Years in reading six hundred twenty eight patterson high school students took the test 480 or four of them or 77% tested at an elementary school reading level that includes seventy one high school students who are reading at a kindergarten level and eighty eight students reading at a first grade level. a another forty five are reading at the second grade level, just 12 students tested at patterson high school. we're reading at graderede level that comes out to less than two percent so the kids can't read. >> they're illiterate. what is their future look like? what is baltimore's future look li...

Because probably too many big words and i know in that part of tennessee the reading level only 30% of the students in the schools are at reading level. but i would recommend on tyranny by timothy snyder which connects the dots admirably, a historian who wrote "blood lands." it is a matter of trying to not only know what happens, but connect it to somehow what is happening to us now. >> you were talking about maybe this is a harbinger of what's to come and you mentioned, you know, when you were in school, maybe there wasn't much taught about the holocaust. i think there really was more of a re...

What do you want them to do, then? >> i want them to do -- i want them to utilize the process that has been in place for decades. that is, if you have a problem, go to the school. have a conversation with your ch child's teacher. every teacher that i know, there is an open-door policy. you know, we have not had this issue of -- of confronting educators for everything. parents have -- have trusted educators to provide the best-quality education possible. and that's what we do and if parents want to send a note to -- to their teacher to ask a question, do that. but i am going to encourage people...