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30, 40, 50 -- >> yes, okay. >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i'm like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we're the allens. we're better than that, you know? i feel like they foll...

So something that she struggles with, that's easy for me, if i can help her with it, it's not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 -- >> yes, okay. >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running...

Multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 -- >> yes, okay. >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i'm like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we ...

Ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 -- >> yes, okay. >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy -- i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i'm like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't wa...

Teachers up. every once in a while have some quiet time. time-out. so at the college childhood learning center that i visited earlier today, nearly 200 it is kids are spending full days learning in classroom with highly qualified teachers. and so i was working with them to build towers and replicate sculptures and sing songs and, look, i got to admit, i was not always the fastest guy on some of this stuff. the kids were beating me to the punch. through this interactive learning, they're learning math, writing, how to tell stories, and one of the things that you've done here in decatur system y...