tamar braxton back in d.c. for the first time in three years.ever. >> it's really about my parents and their divorce that happened 16 years ago. and then started to turn into my friends into my sister situation and something that happened to me when i was, you know, much younger been i met my husband. so, you know, then it became this whole personal anthem where people can relate. if you ever gotten cheated on before. song you can relate to. >> the lyrics tell the story. when you hear the music you can hear the passion in your voice and the audience really connects to that. >> they dodge everybody has been hurt before and a lot of people don't know how to deal witness don't have a voice. i guess i'll be at them to get all the pain out of the way so the good notice can come in. >> my man not the only new music hearing from tamar. she's also hard at work on new album. and while there's still no release date or title, we did get a little sneak peek at what fans can expect and let's just say, she's excited. >> little taste of what's to come. >> i'm

when tamar artzi was shot, you could hear the gunshot, see a flash from the actual weapon.k we all realized that these hijackers were absolutely deadly serious. >> the hijacker is preparing for another execution in ten minutes. >> time goes by. he takes another passport. nitzan mendelson, come forward. nit zp nitzan, who had seen what occurred, was screaming hysterical. >> rezaq picked her up, pulled her by the hair, shot her and she fell. >> tamar artzi saw her friend laying there. >> her body was moving. i thought she was as injured as me. i didn't think she was injured so badly. and i kept telling myself, go away from here. it is dangerous from here. but where should i go? >> at the same time, the three americans are seated in the front row. their hands are tied behind their backs with neckties. rogenkamp, baker and pflug. >> in time, patrick baker, come forward. patrick was the first american. tall, 6'5". patrick was thinking, there must be something i can do. perhaps i can kick him or assault him. >> he locks eyes with rezaq as he's walking forward, staring right at hi

i think tamar made her thoughts on this pretty clear. it is kind of about the flexibility versus accountability portion. the question is, should these schools of choice be subject to the same accountability systems as their neighboring traditional public schools? and why or why not? kevin: we do participate in the same accountability as traditional publics. i do think of that is a challenge for those who want to be innovative and out-of-the-box. you have to, at some point or another, perform on those tests. if you are authorized, at least in a charter world, if you're your authorizer doesn't like the results, you get an accountability grade of three f's in a row, you are shut down. in indianapolis, there was a school that was approved by an authorizer and the application specifically said we not going to teach to the test, we are not believers in the state standardized test. the authorizer approved that charter. but the charter still had to administer those tests. was anybody surprised by the results that the test results were not so gre

tamar: the exciting things about a lot of these schools is that they do have flexibility. we brought together students for a roundtable and they would get off the topic of the mar -- of the park test. if it's in new york, they have to do the regents or whatever it is. it's a burden. they have to be ready for the higher education expectations. we have so much flexibility and then we have to go back in that little box. there was a moment at this roundtable where somebody said be careful what you wish for. we do not want to get out of those tests. our kidsrt to say aren't going to take those tests, everyone is going to say that we aren't educating them well. if you can get them through college, you can point to something higher. if you are not getting most kids through college, you still want to prove you are getting the ready for whatever they want to do. you have to teach the kids aerospace and give them time to work in the aerospace shop but you also have to get the ready to take the algebra to -- the algebra 2 test. most educators are not saying, get me out of those expec

>>tamar irvine. >> i'masha slater >> i'm natalie, pow, mariah, mcfell. >> ok. >> they're shy but certainlyt shy when doing the push through. >> no, there's not >> this is wonderful because so many people were talking about your video when it went viral now i you guys have a commercial >> gap commercial >> we're going to go see it then we have to discuss, here's the commercial airing for the gap >> i want to push through >> what if it's too i want the push through. >> what if you're not good enough >> that's no so >> why because >> i believe in you >> believe in yourself. tell me why. >> we push through anything we put our minds through. >> this is an amazing back to school commercial. how did this happen >> i was on my way to work driving, and an e-mail from a representative from gap. they were looking for inspiring 2017 back to school campaign >> and they decided to come to the classroom and made it happen spent eight hours shooting, and now we have the commercial >> how many students in the class >> 27 >> they were all there, for logistical reasons we were only allowed 14 students. >> on

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