caller: i'm a retired schoolteacher herei taught intensive reading, 11th grade.i think we should be concentrating on the academics more. i agree with some of the books i have seen and heard about. they should not be in the public scho i don't think it is appropriate. the students need to be writing. they need to have comprehension of the reading. reading is the most important subject across all subjects. thank goodness we have the american flag in the classroom. i had many students that don't even stand for the pledge of allegiance. they don't care. all of a sudden you have a school that is rated average. the next. they have lowered their standards on examining the students. it is easier for the community make it look better on paper. the cell phone issue, that's a big one. host: let's get some responses. guest: yeah. i want to focus on academics. three half years i've been sitting on this dais. every single school were meeting has been taken over by some controversial culture war topic. the reality is people who were focusing on academic gains in english and rea

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caller:hink the big issue herei am begging c-span to do their homework.ealize the statistics you read that it is down, the doj does not require to report prior data anymore, ok? so please, i am begging you, c-span. do your homework. host:thank you, thomas. ralph is in connecticut. good morning, ralph. what is the top issue there? caller:i have several issueset down on the main issues. we have senior citizens living in the complex here. i have gone through a lot of situations with the mayor senator, and the last was nobody has done anything. channel 12 came on board. host: what were you asking? their job. host:hat specifically were you hoping they would do that they are not doing? caller: ok because we are over here trusting everybody as a citizen. we have paid taxes. we have been to the army. we are going through all of these different situations which we do not have to be living. for a senior citizen home where there are mice bedbugs, all of this stuff. nobody does anything. i got documents, by the way ok? hing too. the last person that i brought this is

one of the key things hereis process is that as has been put so well and i'm so happy that be isn therector of the sierra club. i'm sure ben -- that part of the problem i that we have had -- it would be thequivalent of having white people coordinate our juneteenth activities. [laughter] so in that process, there are many folks who feel that climate is a need to get close to currencythat is not what this is about. this is a moment here where we need to be about fighting for our children because when our mamas and daddies and granddaughters are waking up peeing blood, when uncles are dealing with cancer and emphysema, when our children are dying in our living rooms because of of coal-fired power plants are within 30te tease, then this is our -- black and brown communities, then this is our issue. [applause] tavis: he mentioned a moment ago the women in this movement and that is why you see a good number of them on this stage, sisters who are in this fight. you were honored some years with a macarthur genius award. let us hi kotten -- that is hikotten to be a macarthur juniors. make the