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We're probably about a mile, mile and a half away. >> so you have how many children at your xoschool right now? >> we have about 450 students that are k-8. >> and what are you being told by law enforcement? are all the kids at the school right now? are you on lockdown? >> yeah, we're on lockdown. honestly, we don't necessarily have lots of conversations with law enforcement so the moment we found out there was a situation we called dispatch. they say that we should be on lockdown. so we go on lockdown. we don't ask a lot of questions. our number one priority is to protect children so we have b...

Classes for classes nationally based k-8 student kz get involved. we connect classrooms to care. to learn first hand it's a far better gift to give than to receive. but i'm a teacher through and through. just because i don't have one classroom i have many. i'll always be a teacher. >> when you look back on that horrific day, do you stay in touch with any of those kids that you helped? >> absolutely. their families. i'm so incredibly grateful to be in touch with my students, their family l families. i saw a majority of them in december, a few of them weeks ago. it's so important to me. i'm just...

The story of a lot of little girls. sports over dolls, jeans over dresses. >> at one school in virginia, tomboys are apparently off limits. a girl was expelled just for being who she is. the story from lynchburg. >> reporter: sunnie kale is 8 years old. she's got short hair and a huge heart. as far as her grandparents are concerned, she's a great little girl. what else do you like to do? >> play time. >> cries every morning to get on the bus. cries when she gets home because she wants to go back to timberlake christian with her friends. >> reporter: doris and carol are her grandparents. they a...

The story of a lot of little girls. sports over dolls, jeans over dresses. >> at one school, a girl was expelled for being just who she is. >> reporter: sunny is 8 years old. she's got short hair and a huge heart. as far as her grandparents are concerned, she's a great little girl. what else do you like to do? >> play. >> cries every morning to get on the bus. cries when she gets home because she want to go back with her friends. >> reporter: doris and carol are her grandparents. they adopted and raised the little girl, and took her out of timberlake christian school when they received this le...

>> and that is a great idea to eliminate the caps. >> yeah. well, this is why it is not a great idea. in the philadelphia area, we have 18 chaerts under federal investigation since 2008 for malfeasance ranging from the self-dealing real estate transactions to across the board at so many of the charters sky high executive compensation, to out and out embezzlement. in chester upland a nearly bankrupt district that is currently suing the state alleging that the inequitable funding that chester gets violates the constitution's state guarantee that every child has a right to a good education, and t...