responsible. what about people who say you re the union president and your job is to just keep teachers in some cases who are even under performing in their jobs? of course i know you love children and this is a calling i think when you are a teacher. right. when it gets to the political level and unions, some say this is just about protecting jobs. but look. at the end of the day, we said for the last several years we have to make sure there are no incompetent teachers in classrooms. and we ve taken steps to try to turn that around. no teacher wants somebody teaching side by side who doesn t know what he or she is doing. if you have a second grade teacher that doesn t know what he is doing the second graders get hurt and the third grade teacher gets hurt. what teachers want more than anything else, and they do an amazing job, is the tools and conditions to help kids learn. that s what i wanted when i was in 11th grade social studies teacher and that s what the teachers i know