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>> it is also near the end of teacher appreciation week so i i thought we would ask you the questionon about that and also some testimony this week from the education secretary miguel cardona and wee will show you some of that in this first hour in addition ring from you and your thoughts on how your school system did during the pandemic come this is reporting a "politico" from thisng week. biden hits 100 100 the schol reopening goal but reopening difficulties persist. they write president joe biden hit his 100 day goal of reopening. the majority of k-8 schools for in i person learn in march. statistics from white house ordered school learning census indicated thursday yet the data also underscores the administrations myriad challenges, repairing the securd reassuring parents that class ring -- classroom learning is safe. it closed -- close of 90% of the

public schools offer instruction by the end of march and the government said according to the secretary, 54% of k-8 were open on a full-time basis. reporting on that hearing of the education secretary and his comments, this is from the washington times, black hispanic students return at lower rates, and that secretary praises reopening goals saying, chairing the president for meeting the goal of reopening the majority of these schools within the first 100 days, but he also acknowledged black and hispanic students return to school at a lower rate than their white classmates. the times writes this, meanwhile half of black and hispanic

fourth through eighth graders were still completely learning remotely compared to 21% of white students. i will not be satisfied until 100% schools are open safely for full-time in person learning for all. that is from the education secretary. the minority republican leader tweeting about that this morning, there are still 16.7 million children who are not attending school full-time. how many were kept from school because the administration allowed the science to be manipulated by special interest groups and republican demand answers. here's what he is talking about, the reporting of the new york post, republicans demand answers from cdc about emails with teachers union. house republicans are demanding the head of the centers for disease control explain the relationships with teachers unions and whether they have

influenced guidance on school reopening's following a report in the post, the top republicans on the house energy and commerce committee pointed to a report that showed a flurry of emails among cdc director, her top advisers and union officials suggesting that the american federation of teachers weighed in on the federal opening guidelines released in february. this morning, our first question is about your school performance grades, the performance during the pandemic. (202)748-8000 the line for those of you in the eastern and central time zones, (202)748-8001 for mountain and pacific and for educators, (202)748-8002. the education secretary was asked about the issue of students falling behind in learning at a hearing this week. >> in light of this loss

especially among the most vulnerable, in my mind this is really geared toward this goal, that no child is less than any other child. how to make sure we catch them up, is your department making sure that, you know, one day a week is not good enough. our democratic governor has stepped up to the plate to sate we need to do this. how are you going to take on some of these bigger systems that are not geared towards these needs? >> thank you for the question. i agree with you, the best equity level we have is in person learning now, not in the fall, now. we need to do everything to get the students in every day. to have social and emotional

engagement, the access to a teacher, where as you mentioned, we know students are suffering because of the trauma that they have experienced. what we have done is worked with the cdc to get guidance. we had the school summit. we had over 1100 entries of best practices that were submitted. we are building up a system to get new data to make sure we are reaching out proactively and talking to the commissioners and the superintendents, if necessary, sending a team to support them because we cannot wait. i am very passionate about it and i agree with you here we need to get the students in right away. what i have seen in my tour, in some of these urban centers, they have old bidding -- buildings that have not had their bent elation system looked at in years, so there are needs

that we need to address. host: this first hour, we are asking you to great your school performance during the pandemic, (202)748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones, (202)748-8001 for the pacific zones. the first comment says we have been open since august, and there were waves of outbreaks. we had to quarantine some of the student body. the shear stress of this year has aid me question their want to continue working as a teacher. from derek says my three kids go to three different schools in concord, north carolina, and they are handling it excellently. if you are an educator of the

line is (202)748-8002. let's go to john from brooklyn. justice ginsburg: -- caller: i want to ask two or three sort of questions. some of them have 30 kids in one classroom, what about the spacing, like you just said earlier, the ventilation is something in these fillings, it is insufficient. do have a team to go through these old schools in black neighborhoods and see if they have room for spacing and ventilation and laptops? thank you. host: to woodford from cincinnati on our educators

line. caller: i have taught everything from kindergarten through graduate school over a long time. i think education is in my blood. my mother was also a teacher who felt keenly about the need to take different cultural patterns in the neighborhoods that were very much in need of it, in mississippi in the 1950's and 1940's. i've had the experience of seeing things turn around when the teachers are trained to understand the cultural needs that we have in this particular city, as great as it is, even in in old new york city skills about getting teachers and students together. what we need to do is focus on the family of the student and train teachers to be able to communicate with those parents or others who are involved in

the child's life. let the teachers learn how to welcome the parents and let the school system learn how it is bitingly important. -- vitally important. i don't think we even have an inkling of that. i don't want us to go back in thinking to the little house on the prairie and all of that, but we need some of that spirit of involvement of the entire community with the schools and what is happening to bring the youngsters along. host: do you think your technology has helped or hurt your -- caller: technology is like dangle bracelets on the arm of a beautiful woman. [laughter] if you don't have the essence of the woman, with all of the things that go with the job they

are doing, then you will not have anything. we have to go for the vital need for communication between and among everyone in the life of the child and the educational system. teachers need to be supported in being more humane and culturally involved, and all of the administrators and principals, and get it together. we just do not have that. we don't have that sense of the immersion of letting the child feel immersed in the environment for all of the adults care about what is happening. margaret mead, the anthropologist, went into islands in the pacific and noted that the important thing there about how there was low child

the link would see, the parent involvement, the family involvement was what she sees don and she said we just do not have that in this country. we need that family involvement. the child needs to be nurtured in that kind of framework. host: next, another educator, clay, from louisiana. caller: hello. we have private school here and we never missed a day. we started school august 5, and if a child was exposed or had the covid, we did it through virtual teaching through microsoft teams. i teach science, and any demonstration i did, they got to stay-at-home, and they had the hand outs that i gave, and we

never missed a day except for hurricanes. host: do think that technology you are using, will that continue regardless? caller: not for me so much, because my textbook is all online post videos or website that's the thing they can do and some things on youtube but they can watch it at home if they miss school. it's like all they have to do is pull up and look at it and work

it. and it into me. if they send it into me. >> when you are about other schools and school systems that are unable to do the sorts of things and he think you said you teach at a private school, correct? >> yes. >> whether private or public schools are not able to the types of things your school system has done, what are your thoughts? >> well, i can -- excuse me. i can understand sometimes financially unable but it's really, it's quite easy to do. i'm not a genius and and i e to pick up, teach the kid, let's say technology advanced probably fed a lot of adults because there are other all the time, but i don't see why they can't go the way. i think the technology is a way to go for the future because it opens up so much.

child has chrome book he can google answers, do more research on things. like i i said i teach science, physical science, and they can do research come look up stuff if they get carries about something they can go and is all right there at their hand. the whole life universe knowledge is there. >> how long have you been teaching virtually with chrome book only, using no textbooks? using this chrome book process? >> i went to work at this private school through use ghosts i been doing it three years. >> so they've been doing it for three years at least. >> at least three years. >> appreciate your comments this morning,, than social media and send us the text. this an sizzurp schools and private schools have been in person since august. this will create a for the divide, a huge void in education between the haves and have-nots as great in cleveland.

every student from grade one through 12 equipped with individual laptops since march 2020. even back in school full-time since january 2021 with mask wearing and social distancing. schools relation systems are updated and some modifications of doorways. i'm a massive livable we needs kids 100% back in school now. all to work any schools the been weak. the quality of education is pathetic. all to more public schools and west virginia university are mostly online and the quality is unacceptable. to randy in michigan, i have to give school performance a d+. our superintendent at the lunch program going picky took buses and took them to different locations with sack lunches or kids could eat. even when they did it on weekends i asked him about the rules to keep schools open. his reply was that was a lot of work to enforce but they are worth it to keep the kid safe. >> okay.