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This country. smaller budgets, larger classroom sizes. and not feeling supported by administration. but, in this particular case i think the teacher was pretty over the top although we didn't see what happened before that part of the video so we don't know what was leading up to it. >> bill: the girl was cursing at him. she wanted to leave the classroom. and she pushed him to the edge. and i think you are right, people with the telephone cameras are getting it to us and we are bringing it and it's being reported more. in los angeles the school board says now that you can say fu to the teacher,...

State legislature our budget went from 110 billion to 83 billion. clearly california could not cut anymore without seriously compromising education. and so at a certain point you have to recognize there's two ways to close a deficit. one is to cut, and one is to bring in revenue. and cutting you just can't do forever. and so the balanced approach that california has demonstrated is definitely the approach of the nation. >> are you surprised that california's passed this, though? because you have to couple that again with another i believe it was a quarter cent tax increase overall just state-w...

impossible to try to achieve at this stage. >> and then there was a mass funeral in syria. what took place there? >> that happened in the southern province. if you remember, this is the prove convince where the uprising all began. there were pretty intense shelling that killed at least 19, 20 people, and another funeral going out for them that was streamed live by activists. this is where one really must admire the opposition. even though they're in the process of burying someone, who was killed at hands of government forces, for voicing their desire for regime change, they still, wh...

L particularly to poor kids. there were teachers at the charter school in philadelphia. who said o to him, we have to actually differentiate instruction to kids. that means we need smaller classes. >> he said larger classroom sizes. set first one i've ever heard come with that one. >> look, just someone who is out of touch. he clearly has not been in a public school classroom, in a very long time. if he is actually going to think that the way in which we bring this country together is that you divide teachers from kids, the way we create opportunity is that you scapegoat and demonize, that is ...

About. inside that philly school, mr. romney also faced some headwinds from some of the people his campaign set him up to meet with while the cameras were rolling. watch. >> a number of folks said, well, we need smaller classroom sizes. that will make the biggest difference. i said, let's compare the average classroom side from each school district with the performance of our students because we test our kids and see if there is a relationship. there was not. just getting smaller classrooms didn't seem to be the key. >> i can't think of any teacher in the whole time i've been teaching over 10 ...