were spreading our resources way too thin. and we were -- the citizens and the students weren't feeling the amount of money that we were spending every single day. you know, in terms of the teacher accountability, yes, we spent -- we held a very, very high bar. we said it's no longer going to be acceptable for teachers who are ineffective to stay in the classroom. we've gotten a tremendous amount of pushback about that. and you said we were going to talk about the election. if you talk about the mayor's election, a lot of what you heard from citizens was, well, they fired teachers. what you didn't hear about that was that we didn't fire teachers to be mean or because we were callus or didn't care, we wanted to remove ineffective teachers from the classroom because our students deserve better. >> you talk about accountability. but you said you shouldn't be demonized but you sued the district when there is accountability when teachers get fired. is that the constructive response? >> you know, the last suit that we did was actually about trying to find out the basis upon which some of the teachers were fired.