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A hand begun so they can take on the next school shooter with an ar-15. heres how donald trump thinks teachers should go to school with a handgun. >> lets say you have 20% of your teaching force, thats the number. >> 20%, thats 700,000 teachers in america who need to go to school tomorrow with a concealed handgun because according to donald trump all they have to do is shoot the guy, because its always a guy with the assault weapon, and that would be the end of it. marjory stoneman douglas high ...

Donald trump does not know that 76% of american schoolteachers are female. 76%. some schools have 100% female teaching staff. donald trump imagines that every school has big strong coaches and theyre all eager to conceal a handgun so they can take on the next school shooter with an ar-15. heres how donald trump thinks teachers should go to school with a handgun. >> lets say you have 20% of your teaching force, thats the number. >> 20%, thats 700,000 teachers in america who need to go to school t...

People are talking about it, certainly a point that well discuss, but conceal carry for teachers and for people of talent of that type of talent. so lets say you had 20% of your teaching force, because that is pretty of the number, and you said it, an attack has lasted on average about 3 minutes. it takes 5 to 8 minutes for responders for the police to come in. so the attack is over. if you had a teacher who was adept the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly. and the good thing about ...

Discuss, but concealed carry for teachers and for people of talent of that type of talent, so lets say you had 20% of your teaching force, because that is the number, and you said it, an attack has lasted on average about three minutes. it takes five to eight minutes for responders, for the police to come in. so the attack is over. if you had a teacher with -- who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly. and the good thing about a suggestion like this, and well lo...

Essa law to create that fresh start and what she is saying that fresh start we created last year means nothing, but in a speech i did last week, i said every parent should have a viable neighborhood public school and lets make sure we focus on childrens well-being, and powerful learning and building the capacity of the teaching force and i invited her to come and see the schools that work as opposed to destabilizing and defunding public schools, come and see the schools that work with us, becaus...

Minority teacher. black men makeup only 2% of the nations teaching force. tomorrow, john legend will join teach for america for a google hangout encouraging more african-american men to join the field. >> its not very often that my students get to see someone who looks like them who also has a schedu college degree. >> joining me now is john legend. john, its an honor and a pleasure to have you on the show. >> its great to finally be on the show. i watch you all the time. >> and i watch you and ...

Absolutely great. theyre very effective. so why would you want to rid the school district of those highly effective people? youve got to get rid of policies like that if youre going to make sure we have the best teachers in the classroom and this country is gog make sure that we have the best teaching force in the world. >> absolutely. those are great goals, realistic, if we follow what you say. we thank you for being with us. we certainly all want whats best for the kids. >> absolutely. >> than...

Dunbar was great, because its teaching force was great, its principles were great. and the thing that i think were finally having real conversations about is who is in our classroom, teaching our children. these people were not just accomplished, they lived in the community that our young people lived in and so there were connections. they also communicated that they cared about these young people. they held them to high expectations. and ive been in far too many classrooms where the people that...

Them more technology. >> steve: we have a clip from jeb bush. >> please. >> it is focused on accountability and the way we do that. we grade ab, cdor f. politicians dont know anything about education. most of the this is not dictating what teachers do, it is setting expectations of the results. >> gretchen: so much of the talk is about the unions. is that part of the focus of the special as well? >> no. in many cases unions are opposed to introducing the technology. why? because they see it unde...

Just at the core of what is going on in our education discussion. and im constantly feeling this sense of angst not that charter schools dont have some role in a kind of broad education menu, for example, but the extent to which it feels like we think charter schools are the solution to the problems were facing. >> well, i agree. some charters are great and some are terrible. charters give you the freedom to get it right. they dont mean you will get it right. and there arent easy answers. thats ...