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The law. which of course, is i will -- is illegal. you think it is appropriate for teachers to be breaking the law? >> our teachers are exercising their first amendment rights. what is important is to make sure our students have adequate funding and we can bargain for better conditions. we are making sure the democratic process works.bái >> judge jeanine: no question the democratic process and first amendment are important. there are laws that make it illegal for teach terse to strike. is about teachers or the union? >> it is about our students. we have an opportunity -- >> judge jeanine: if ...

Take the 9 and 7, 16% of the time actually related to school. the study also found that 45% of students made no major gains in learning after two years in college. 36% showed little change after four years. 50% of those surveyed spent less time studying than their counterparts several decades ago. there's also this interesting finding. of the students questioned, they had an average gpa of 3.2. the study was based on transcripts, test scores and surveys over 2300 students at 24 schools across the country. the report was based on the book "academically adrift." the book is by a professor by the...

Years. for the last year and a half what djhave you been doing? >> sitting in a rubber room. >> what did you do today. >> packed up stuff. played some spades. left. >> reporter: your salary? >> $85,000. >> reporter: together these teachers earned an estimated $30 million a year to simply show up and sit in a room for eight hours according to the city's education department. some of them claim they don't know what they're charged with. >> i don't deserve to be treated like this. >> reporter: he says he shouldn't be there but should be back in the classroom teaching his students. >> this should ...

Show up and sit in a room for eight hours, some of them, including this man, claim they don't know what their charged with. >> i don't deserve to be treated like this. >> he said he shouldn't be there but back in the classroom teaching his students. >> this process should have taken, at most, two to three weeks. >> so how could the nation's largest school district afford to let a teacher sit in a rubber room? >> we didn't have an agreement with the union as to where we could put these people if they were not teaching. >> they say that you will that will change when a new agreement with the tea...

They're in such disarray. you can't make heads or tails out of that e-mail. it's hard to understand what he's saying. >> true, that's not directed to the kids and not standing in a classroom teaching them english. >> he was a substitute teacher, he worked throughout the ranks and. >> now is president. >> and detroit city schools are a mess, they are in shambles. i can understand some of the parents. >> absolutely. >> give credit to the man coming out and telling the story and coming on this program this morning. >> he will be on in about one hour and he will explain himself to all of us. >> so...