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Rules leave some kids stuck with terrible teachers. >> this is crazy. >> this former police investigator says it takes years to fire even an abusive teach. lots of people said he hit kids. the kids said it. >> lots of people and other people said it that were present in the classroom. took me four years and $283,000, $127,000 in legal fees. plus what it cost to have a substitute fill in all while he is sitting home having popcorn. >> still being paid by the state. >> still being paid by the di...

Acing the class. >> the you tube numbers kept rising and he got letters from the middle east, africa. >> what sal khan has done is amazing. >> now, he is funded by bill gates and offers web lectures on everything from history to economics to computer science. his videos are viewed million is of times. >> not only is it reaching millions of students right now but even if god forbid i got hit by a bus when i walked outside it would still be able to reach millions and maybe billions of stew kents. ...

Teachers. theyve got plenty of knowledge, but i would imagine once you sit down in the classroom, you got to know how to get it out of your head and into theirs. >> thats right. the research is very clear that the most important factor in school that impacts student achievement letter is the quality of the teacher in front of the students every day. so we have to make sure that every single child is in the classroom with a highly effective teacher every single day. >> steve: you need highly effe...

Theocracy of some sort. >>gretchen: a teacher in new jersey was fired for giving a student a bible. >> a teach, a member of the gideons, a child asked for a copy of the bible. the teacher gave him a copy. the teacher was fired a few weeks ago. whats interesting, in russia you can give kids bibles in schools. here in the united states, teachers cant do any more. >> a little girl wrote a veterans day poem in honor of her grandfather who served in the war. she had a passing reference to god. the sc...

A slight advantage to those who favor gay marriage here in this country. for some the dividing line is about a civil ceremony versus what happens in a church. should churches be able to decide which kinds of couples they will marry? >> well, you know, churches can do whatever they want. the question is what does their religious faith teach. and the folks that are pushing this in the episcopal church have the same kind of living constitution cavalier regard for doctrines of the bible as the livin...

And i remember a teach theyre kept calling me the little jap boy. no, the racism was intense, certainly during the war, and after the war. were americans. my mother was born in sacramento. my father was a san franciscan. my siblings and i were born in los angeles. innocent americans who were put into prison camps. is that not racism? >> it is. and it also -- i find it very insulting that bill oreilly or anyone would have to qualify asian-americans as hardworking. in a roundabout way i think that...

Democrat who put us in internment camps during the second world war, and also dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. but the majority of asian-americans are democrats. and we are very liberal, because the democratic philosophy is one that is better for asian-americans. >> and bill oreilly denies that there was any national racism after world war ii. you experienced that in your life, have you not? >> we were in prison camps, barbed wire fence, century towers, machine guns pointed at ...

Picked the largest lecture hall they could find, which turned out to be a chemistry class. >> the night before we sort of set up how we would go about it. so the day of the prank, we walked into the classroom like we were just students in that class. and i was miked. there was a boom box all set up. one cameraman was stationed outside. the class began and my cue was to stand up and scream, hey teach, ive got a question. i dont think i can describe to you accurately just how scared i was. because...

I dont think i can describe to you accurately just how scared i was. because i was afraid someone was going to stop me. i was interrupting a class. i thought the teacher would run up and shut me up or somebody would get in my way or something would happen that would stop the prank right in the middle and that would be the end of it. so i was scared to death. >> and what about the teach? what did he think? >> i had no idea this was going to happen. i was stunned. it was so well done, so well prod...

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