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heartstrings for anyone, much less a politician, and if it doesn't -- if it's not able, something like this isn't able to move the ball forward, i don't know what will. >> it's one thing to have a bake sale for band uniforms or something, bub the idea that these kids are so worried about losing their school that they're raising $20 to try to keep the school open, that just does not seem like it should be happening in our country. >> well, i will tell you that our community -- again, we have serious social economic problems. we had a spat of violence over the summer. most recent, seven children shot. two children, children, murdered. and now the children are going back to school. and going to a school -- when they go to school, this is something that's normal for them. this may be the -- the only normal thing for them. now, they're going back to school. now they have to worry about, you know, not being able to go to school. education is -- >> i was going to say, we know if they're home, they're much
this having to happen. >> well, they can't be, because they have to -- they do look flip-floppy a little bit. everybody in american politics is always afraid to be a flip-flopper. hillary clinton already went out and said, well, there was an expectable decision. she spoke at the new school this summer where she slightly mentioned she spoke to the council of foreign relations. i think she's already preparing herself for that long war. but also distinguishing herself, saying, i will have an exit strategy. if we have to stay there longer, we will. but for a good cause. >> she's super comfortable with being a codemocratic hawk. she actually spends one minute defending libya as a great policy success. i don't know how you wrap your mind around that at all. she spent time talking about how edward snowden, saying -- >> serious about that. >> she's going to stand up to
because no one kills germs better than clorox. for many chicago children, getting to school is a dangerous task. last month, the city suffered more than 60 homicides. the deadliest september in the city since 2002. and more than 2,400 people have been shot already this year in chicago. many of them school aged children. the situation is so extreme that the midwest coalition for human rights appealed to the united nations to investigate the dangers faced by students as a potential human rights violation.
250,000 lunch meals. we've only received $50,000 from the state. if the doors were to close, many of these students would go hungry because this essentially when they come to school, this may be their only meals. so we are in a situation where the district has made a decision to attempt to borrow $30 million. which, by and large, which cost the district $140,000. that's the salary of two teachers. so this situation is really gone out of control. >> and this is basically a political fight, right. i guess i just feel like you elect your legislatures, you elect your governor. one is from the democratic side, one from the republican side. but the idea that kids, you know, they don't have a party, they don't have a set of ideologies. shouldn't they be at the forefront of these decisions?
community as being active rehabilitated citizens. >> what about those who need real changes now? that was the question before the supreme court this week. in 2012, the court banned mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of human. on tuesday, justices heard arguments on whether that ruling should be applied retroactively. at the center of the latest case, a man named henry montgomery who was 17 years old when he shot and killed a louisiana sheriff's deputy in 1963. montgomery was playing hooky from school and the officer was assigned to round up the truants. montgomery told authorities he kind mean to kill the officer but panicked. the attorneys argued montgomery had develop mental disabilities and did not fully understand what he was doing. but he still received the mandatory minimum of life without parole. and today, montgomery is 69 years old and has spent the last 52 years at the louisiana state penitentiary.
the erie school district which already owed $9 million in late payments to vendors is hit particularly hard by the budget standstill. the district is preparing for the possibility of sending its 12,000 students home starting november 1st if the state budget is not settled. joining me now from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, is the father of a student in erie public school and board member at the partnership for erie public schools, an advisory board member at central tech high school. nice to have you this morning, sir. >> thank you very much, melissa, nice to see you this morning. >> so talk to me both about how you feel and how other parents in the school may feel about the possibility that your children may not be able to go to school in two weeks. >> well, i will tell you this is a serious problem within our community. so many of our parents in our community are worried about what happens when or if the school were to close and they would have to turn to finding child
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