country were disciplinary in the school, a suspension or expulsion being turned into a police matter and a criminal matter. there s the question of whether folks are getting that right, or whether we re over-criminalizing a response to something this for most of history was just, hey, kids will be kids, deal with it within the school and not everything goes to court. and just on that very point, i spoke earlier with senator marlon kimpson, who doesn t represent the district, but grew up in columbia, south carolina, and his first cousin graduated from spring vale. it used to be a white school, it s about 60/40 now. one of the contexts here, after columbi columbine, the federal government began issuing grants across the nation which resulted in something like 20,000 new hires of school resource officers and it was precisely in the context that you mentioned, kate, to keep schools safe from potential columbine-like incidents.
he s probably going to live tweet the debate and insult all the democratic candidates the way he s insulted all the republican candidates. i think what s really going to be interesting to watch tonight is as alex mentioned, what does hillary clinton do? can she show a lighter side? will she be able to deflect the inevitable attacks whether it s from bernie sanders or martin o malley or lincoln chaffee or jim webb. can she act like a front-runner, try to be above it. what will bernie sanders do if he is challenged? we haven t really seen that. there are people on the far left who love bernie sanders. that s why he s been drawing all these huge crowds. here s bernie sanders for the first time on a real national stage in front of millions of people. finally, what s going to happen tomorrow and in the ensuing days with the coverage of this debate? how is that going to affect the impressions, who won, who lost, what do they really stand for. the headlines out of this will be interesting t
the thing is, the reason common core came was people like bill gates said we need students to be better at math and sciences. did they just have the wrong idea? of course we want our students to get better at math and science, but it is a one-way approach. like you said, you needed a different way to solve the problems. but what about the other kids who that way doesn t work for? especially people with learning disabilities? i had learning disabilities and that s what it is for i think. that s what i m saying. someone may have another disability where this doesn t make sense to them. i think there should be multiple ways to answer a problem. we should be teaching all of them to our kids. as for the dad who wrote the check, okay, funny, on facebook, but go to some pta meetings or doing something or trying to understand it and help your kid out. right now he or she is stuck with it. how will you help your kid? joanne slamming social media guy.
will talk about, but he has addressed the environment, cuba and immigration. as the son of an immigrant family, i am happy to be a guest this this country which was largely built by such families. [applause]. later in the day he will travel to new york city. a federal court rejecting the latest appeal from the kentucky court clerk twho doesn t want to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. kim davis wants to be allowed to retuesday to issue the licenses. she spent five days in jail for con cement of contempt of court. the ceo of volkswagen is stepping down. he bears responsibility for the scandal, but says he personally did nothing wrong. it wiped out billions in the value. owners are voicing their frustration.
obama doesn t have prominent owe brows, but does he? he over did it a little bit. the bigger issues is jobs, right? when obama vetoed the keystone pipeline thousands of jobs were lost. gay marriage is allowed by the supreme court and so this is another example of the government out sourcing jobs and in this situation it was the entertainment industry. wow, you pulled that altogether. joanne, which obama do you prefer? i think i pre for the real one because this obviously shows china likes our obama. he is a great guy. it shows that he doesn t like to follow the law and he is looking out for himself. those are characteristics and that will bring us together. amazing. it could be diplomacy in