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About. take a third gradeer in the 50th percentile. give him a poor teacher for three years, he's in the 40th or 50th percentile. a teacher isn't good because it's young, and isn't bad because it's old, but some are really good. we want to encourage them in the classroom. some people who are old are very wise and very gifted. some people who are old aren't very good anymore. it happens in all professions, happens in teaching. if we really mean merit and accountability and we want to improve the system, then we ought to reward it. by the way, there needs to be more rewards and recognitions of p...

Do. so the problem is, when you base it only on test scores, that's a very imperfect, imprecise and not particularly fair measure by which to judge a teacher's profession on. >> steve perry, thank you. kate walsh on teacher quality, thank you. sarah brown wesley, teacher of the year. a teacher and a corrects officer walk into a protest, if one doesn't do their job, the other gets a new client. plus -- would you stand for 60 kids in your child's classroom. >> ♪ i have clients say it's really hard to save for the future and they've come to a point where it's overwhelming. oh gee, i'm scare...

Of what he says is going to happen, it's astonishing. all right, this is the only way to close the gap, so we're going to have to close 70 more schools in detroit. that will leave only 72 public schools open by 2014. they closed 59 public schools last year. so they're whittling these down by the dozens. that would mean 60 kids per high school class. >> detroit's problems are detroit's problems. look at wisconsin where the problems are completely different, but it is at its core a budget problem. and a union problem. we tease deb, coming into the segment, by saying a teacher and a corrections o...

Your kid being in a classroom with 60 children? that's something that could be a reality in detroit. >> yeah it could. we were just talking before about sort of a lack of any real data that says it's a problem for kids. i worry about teacher's sanity, 60 kids in a classroom. but that's what's happening. the reality is that people are fleeing thety of detroit. let's show you the numbers. detroit's population over the last decade fell 20% but schools saw 50% decline in enrollment. what this is across detroit, they're picking up their kids, taking them to the suburbs. they don't trust the detroit...