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You're talking about. it's these damned republicans that just don't understand the value of public education. they want to find fault with everything. they don't find any kind of positive stories at all when it comes to education. and this is the result. and now you're going to be in a school district that they're expecting, well, heck, you could raise your property taxes 17%. who's in favor of that? >> and that doesn't work. >> and that doesn't work in the school district. >> and it doesn't work because we can't, you know, you raise the property taxes 17%. who's going to want to move there. n...

To governor corbett to come to our school and spend a day with us in our classroom, because she feels that their cutting education funding, they're cutting her education opportunities to go to art, to go to music, to go to gym, to have guidance counselors because she's a bad person. she feels she's being targeted because the kids in inner city schools are bad people. and that's an open invitation to the governor. >> it's doing damage to the kids, there's no question about it. no doubt. >> no question. >> and thousahow do you feel, m hample, that you're the problem, the conservatives say you're...

Even a child with learning disabilities or severe disabilities, is measured the same way. and in a district like ours, the poorer district, we have a higher percentage of special education students, who are required to take the same test as a student without disabilities. so even if my students make a gain from a first grade reading level to a third grade reading level in one year, i'm still a failure as a teacher. even though i moved them -- yeah. and, you know, i think a lot of the public -- they don't understand what's going on. >> no, they don't. >> and that's why -- >> and the talking cul...

Are now being cast aside so the wealthiest americans can live a little bit better. how do you feel about that? >> well, i have to tell you, tth it's the corbett administration way to devalue teachers, because the you devalue teachers, you're not going to have to pay them any money. i don't know about you, but i do know that no teacher i teach with are living high on the hog. we don't have big swimming pools and we don't have big cars. we teach because we love our kids. and it's to the point now where teachers are coming in, in our district, in our school, it's like the walking dead. teachers a...