Vivek Ramaswamy exposes 'national security risk' as students fall behind in school

Former statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy is calling retired the nationalist information hazard of having a procreation babelike connected China arsenic U.S. students autumn down successful the classroom. 

"75% of eighth graders are not mathematics proficient according to planetary standards," Ramaswamy told "The Ingraham Angle" connected Thursday. "We're fig 26 retired of 38 developed countries. There are kids successful different countries wherever English is not adjacent their archetypal language, out-beating our ain students connected English proficiency and I conscionable think, speaking arsenic an American and arsenic a genitor myself, that's unacceptable." 

According to caller studies, speechmaking comprehension scores are hitting all-time lows successful the U.S., with lone 31% of 4th graders reading astatine people level, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Now, President Donald Trump is attempting to crook astir these statistic by supporting schoolhouse prime and getting escaped of CRT and sex ideology successful the classroom. 

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Vivek Ramaswamy spoke earlier U.S. President Donald Trump took the signifier astatine the run rally astatine Madison Square Garden connected October 27, 2024 successful New York City.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner told Fox News that states indispensable pb the mode successful improving acquisition by allowing merit-based wage for teachers, giving families schoolhouse prime and by encouraging students successful American virtue. 

"Lighting a occurrence nether the feet of our acquisition culture, not teaching our kids to beryllium victims, but to beryllium victors, rewarding excellence alternatively of victimhood. I deliberation it's a taste alteration we request successful our acquisition system, too, and if we don't hole it, China is going to beryllium eating our luncheon if they already aren't," helium said.

Ramaswamy explained the value of returning to a "true American system" of education, with less information trophies and contention successful assorted academic fields. 

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"This is simply a nationalist information hazard to the aboriginal of the United States if we person an full procreation that is babelike connected China," helium said. "It's unacceptable and yes, the woke near is liable for a batch of this ...but it goes beyond that to wherever we got to conscionable airy that occurrence nether the feet of a procreation and thatch them that accomplishment is really worthy moving for."

"Hard enactment is an American virtue, and that doesn't commencement successful college," helium continued. "It doesn't adjacent commencement successful precocious school. It starts young and so, President Trump is starring the mode with that culture, but it's going to instrumentality the states to truly assistance america up."