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Plan. we know from studies that kids are five months behind in english and math, right? what are we doing to catch them up? what's the program we're putting in place? is it a summer school program for 2022 summer? after school program when the kids get back to school? one more thing makes me nervous when i hear two weeks. you hear it if colleges, too. we'll take two weeks. remember two weeks to slow the spread? that's a slippery slope, folks. we've been here before and need to be very wary of the pushback on going back to school. >> dana: we'll see you on the "the story" for all of this. great...

That thought about college now are so disillusioned by feeling that they have lost so much in school, lost that school spirit, they're not even thinking about college at this point. so this is a major issue. it is a state of emergency with regard to the mental health of our children and this is something that we now have to give all of our resources towards. >> martha: so what would you say to the department of education? they've been quiet on this issue of making sure that kids are proficient before they move on or making sure that we work now. it's january on a summer school program for this...

Smiling faces or their teachers' smiling faces. that is part of teaching, having having connection with these students. >> carley: dr. fauci said lifting mask mandate is primature and risky, what is your response to that? >> maci went to a summer school program in her school and she didn't have to wear a mask at all, there was no major outbreak, no huge numbers coming out of that, i don't think any cases came out of that. for them to bring it back in the regular school year, i think it was unnecessary. >> carley: maci, you saw something that you didn't like and you wanted to speak out about it...

Looking forward to summer school and bless them for wanting to go to school this summer. >> reporter: right? this was day one of what they're calling the launch to learn summer program, and i have to tell you, if you've been with us at blunt elementary school, you can almost mistake to get inside for some amusement park ride. the parents and the kids were happy and they were excited to be going back into school. the principal was dressed in a space suit eagerly greeting and welcoming these students back. teacher after teacher felt like this felt like a normal school year day, not a summer scho...

Number of students set to return to in-person learning at summer school. ellison barber is outside one of the schools welcoming students back. talk about the turnout that you expect to see or that school system expects to see and why it means so much. >> reporter: yeah. we were at an elementary school all morning. the line, it just seemed like it would never end. people kept coming, parents kept coming bringing their children. some showing up last minute hoping they could enroll their students in the summer school program. the superintendent sees this as an indication that parents, despite the...