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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

We should be firing bad teachers.