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The classroom longer is the answer. these are children. they re not auto ma tons. you can t force them into the kinds of learning situations that we put them in. continuously. why can t they have a little time off. reporter: as districts across the country deal with the challenge of underperforming schools, kids losing more of their summer vacation could be something we see more of. wolf? pamela brown, thanks very much. she s reporting from yonkers. it s been almost four years since michael jackson s death shocked the music world. the whole case is about to go back to court. it could be worth millions, if not billions of dollars. we went out and asked people a simple question: ....
To fire ineffective teachers. we said it s no longer going to be acceptable for teachers who are ineffective to stay in the classroom. we ve gotten a tremendous amount of pushback from that. a lot of what you heard from citizens was, well, they fired teachers. what you didn t hear is we didn t tire teachers tore mean or because we were callous and didn t care. we wanted to remove them because we think our children deserve better. michelle rhee s story in waiting for superman was particularly depressing. was she on the right track in washington, d.c.? the fact of the matter is, under michelle and mayor fenty s leadership, the d.c. public schools are significantly better today than three years ago. d.c. s public schools were a national disgrace for decades. it s amazing to me in our nation s capital we allowed so many children to languish in horrendous learning situations for so long. they have a long way to go. the schools are better today there than a couple years ago. ....