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yes. yes. >> greta: thank you for being with us tonight. go to gretawire.com and tell us what you thought. >> right now, the five is next. >> hell, everyone. i'm kimberly guilfoyle. with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino and greg gutfeld. this is "the five." >> you are looking live at the denver police academy, where president obam is making his latest push for stricter gun laws. we will have more on that in just a minute. but first, stunning video of former rutgers university basketball coach mike rice, physically and verbally abusing his players. the video shows coach rice firing basketballs at players, hitting them in the back, legs, feet and shoulders. he was heard screaming obscenities and gay slurs at his
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players. >> rutgers saw the video in december and suspend rice 3 games and fined him $50 thousand. but today, after the video went viral, rutgers fired the coach. what did they wait for? if he was good enough to fire today, why didn't they do it before? >> obviously, because it got to esfn and a lot of people. this story infuriates me. we are in the middle of political correctness to disagree with people or one another or kids. our culture's in decline, but this is an example of our cult nur free-fall. i am saying because he got fired, not because of what he did. look, there is no question, he should have never used gay slurs. that's against all rules. but i am not sure that's what got him fired.
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i think going after one of the kids got him fire audio listen. it's time to -- i have been talk about this woosification of men. i did something wrong in gym, it's a paddle, it's a sawed-off bat, they whack you on the butt. you never messed around i. you know, eric, i have a paddle right now. >> youa also went to a jesuit high school and you took a prop home with you. but here's the question -- are we better off as a nation with all the p.c. ask the wimpifying, wussification and making men chihuahuas. >> that's the actions of a mad man. hifootball coaches a lot nicer than that and they were pretty rough. forget the words. to kick the kids and throw balls, he should be in a mental institution, want a basketball court. >> disagree. >> did he go too far or extreme dodge ball? >> you should have seen what my speech coach used to yell at me.
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very offensive. i have been in recovery ever since. you made the point that i was thinking about earlier. it could not have been a secret that this coach was like this all the time. and i think it is really pathetic and doesn't show enough gu.ion and -- what do they daal -- kahoneys. so teachers, businesses, nobody does the right thing until there is some negative p.r -- that to me is almost a bigger problem than the p.c. part of it. >> gregg, this is nothing compared to what happens in your basement? >> are you kidding me? this is how dana treats the interns. >> that's why we don't have any. >> this is a misunderstanding. he was multitasking, showing them dodge ball and trying to teach them how bad bully is. you enjoy it but you don't want
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it see how it's made -- as long as you are winning, nobody really cares. i will say this, this guy does come off as kind of an a-hole. you know, he's not a pleasant guy. i wonder how many things his wife is going to be throwing at him tonight, though? >> kipoint something out, mr. beck snell if that is the bar, a coach gets mad, he pushes a kid in the back. if that's the bar you are going to set, you have to let go two-thirds of the coaches in america. >> we did get -- remember woody hayes? he was a legend, he hit a kid on the sideline -- >> except on the field -- >> and laid a guy out. >> yeah, yeah. >> the answer to your question is, i don't think most coaches don't approach this guy's level of thugness. >> but haven't we seen a few? >> bobby knight in indiana was a ledge end and a great coach, by the way. but he had a terrible temper. he did stuff and the school kept putting it off -- there's a picture of it.
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finally, he threw a chair and hit his own kid and the school let him go. but that's because it was a public issue. >> this was an attack on chairs. >> if this was a parent, let's say he was the little league coach, the other parents would have freaked out and he would have been gone a long time ago -- >> ask me i. are you a parent? >> if my parent was loafing on the sidelines, or not playing defense if i would have a problem with the coach -- forget the slur it's. >> what about the physical stuff? >> hoo if he threw a ball, i have to be honest -- i am all right with it. i come from a different time, though. i come from a time when coaches did this on a regular basis. they got in your face, they threw stuff at you. they got angry. it wasn't the end of the world. >> not like that. i had football coaches that would grab my mask and call me names, but they would never -- >> you want a flyer for that i. did it help you, bob? >> your son was pushed in the back -- >> what's the difference! if a coach grabs your cage,
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throws you around, that's okay, but throw a ball at a kid and he has to be fired? >> you can't dismissions what he said i. do you have the video of that? one shows the coach throwing the ball at kid. he looks like, yeah, i'm used to that. okay. >> then he hit him. >> they are not getting mad. they are used to this coach. he does t. he's a hot head. is it good? no! >> he's not just a hot head, he's also a loser. he is below 500. maybe if he was a good coach twould matter. i think the kids are like, get this guy out of here, he's annoying the hell out of me. >> you are bringing up a great point. the results are not here. there is no justification. but what if he was over 500? he had a losing record -- he wasn't a winner? >> there is a lot -- there is not a lot of nice in sports. if you look at oakland raiders and the celtics and the pistons -- eli nastassi, a jerk, there are a lot of jerks in
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there. but with the advent of cell phones and video, the era of the billy martins are on their way out. you can no longer act like woody hayes and bobby knight because cell phones will catch you. we need an endangered jerk clause i. you should explain who billy martin is. >> billy martin was an extremely emotional yankees coach and coach who died in a car accident. >> the other thing, he and reggie jackson got in it in the world series. >> billy martin -- >> that happened. >> he didn't get thrown out all the time. i think coaches are in a position of leadership. you can learn from your coach and you want to be like leaders. who is the coach of the new orleans saint, currently? great guy, right? >> belicheck? >> one of the brothers. >> "the five" talks sports. >> my next point -- >> okay. he -- when they go on their flights and they fly from city to city, he makes everyone wear a suit. they basically have to suit up.
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this is the broken window theory of sports. all of these guys, if they want -- what if one of them got hurt and their future in basketball was ruined? >> there's a liability issue here. >> one of the winningest coaches in basketball, coach k. would have been appalled. >> look at penn state. they were extremely successful. that doesn't matter. >> that's the thing about that -- sorry for bringing that up. people knew about this in sandusky. after that was revealed, found out that a lot of people in the sports program kept it on the down low so that they wouldn't have any problem. then you have people being injured. i am not saying this is the exact same thing. >> what do we have? not wanting to yell at the kids? >> that's the problem, everybody has an iphone or something to record it and broadcast t. but it seems like they go unless it's viral. they just suspended him. i want to listen to the apology,
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too. >> can i do this for bob because i've been away two adeyanjus. it's a game, but we have made it something bigger. ancient rome has president obama is leadingitous ruin. >> and the whole left is right behind you. >> you thought jesse watters had left. >> oh, my goodness. flashback. sometimes sorry just isn't good enough. listen to the coach and see if this changes your mind. >> i have let so many people down -- my players, my administration, rutgers university, the fans. my family who is sitting in their house, just huddled around because of the fact that their father... was an embarrassment -- there is no explanation for what's on those films because there is no excuse for it. i was wrong. >> okay, bob. >> too late. too little. a lot of coaches have this idea if they are tough like that and mean like that that everybody will be afraid of them.
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a lot of places they are, including the players and the administration. they are, many of them are bullies because they bring so much to the school in terms of revenue. >> i had a sophomore basketball coach who was like that, a hot head, all he ever wanted to do was win. guess what we did? we won! >> you relate to that. you want to win all the time, too? >> i had terrible coaches. i had a terrible baseball coach and a terrible basketball coach i. how many years did you play basketball? [chuckles] >> you know what -- you know, this is why i don't like doing sports because you people -- >> this brings up hurt feelings, it's an emotional time. >> i am going to get fired for being mean to gregg. >> quick, the apology -- good enough or not? >> i am so tired of the athletes' apologies. they are so pathetic. i wish he would have usinged a few "f" words and it would be authentic. >> gregg, should we hear from -- now kevin ware. >> yes, please, do. >> all right.
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>> coach kind of just gave my -- my leg like a look like, like he's never seen something like this before. so i am thinking, like, my ankle's hurt or something like that. and i look down at my leg and my bob's 6 inches out of my leg. i guess i just landed wrong and i didn't see where i was landing. so that's what caused the injury. i felt like stuff like this doesn't happen for no reason. >> we pick up where we left off. >> what i love about injuries, no matter how bad it is, they have to play it over and over again. this is disgusting, you don't want to see it. you look at it again and then -- i must have seen it 20 times. every time, it was, you don't want to see this. you don't want to see this i. vinever seen it. i can't watch it. even listening to him, i feel like fainting. >> really? >> what an inspiration. i knew nothing about this kid before the press conference.
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he is an inspiring young man. he said, i am not going to let this end my career. i am going to get back on it. he's someone to watch. >> and his first thought was for the team. >> he's an extraordinary kid. the thing that worries me, i hope he make its back, but he's not finished growing yet. when you have a steel bar, it's very tough. i mean, i hope he make its back, but i am really doubtful. >> have you stopped growing, gregg? >> why does this have to come back to an insult -- >> i have been gone 3 days. >> i missed you. >> that's an amazing -- if that had happened to me, i would have just passed out completely. >> i think it is proven to be a leadership moment for the whole team. it's been inspirational. theyville his number on their jerseys when they play. he will be on the sideline, on the bench, rooting them o. i think they have a little bit of a power -- [overlapping dialogue] >> do you think it's barack obama's fault? >> kim asked us about the coach, what's your pon that coach. >> on the coach?
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>> uh-huh. >> i don't mind a little tough love -- >> absolutely. i was a coach. >> he talks to jamaican ladies like that. >> look hathey do to me. >> and have you plenty of time to talk to them. >> i think the gay slur stuff, completely out of line. i don't mind the tough talk. i wouldn't throw the basketball. i coached girls basketball, seventh grade, i wasn't going to beat them with the basketball. but i was touch -- i was tough with them. i am not going to put cream on their hands. >> our lady of mercy grammar school where i also attended. >> a lot of dads go to watch the game, kimberly? >> a lot of volunteers. >> i am sure. a couple of moms. >> it was san francisco. >> coming up on "the five," you are looking live at the denver police academy where president obama is about to make yet another push for gun control. what's with his obsession with guns? we are going to try to figure that one out ahead.
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♪ >> welcome back to the five. does president obama seem just a little bit object setsed with -- obsessed with gun control lately, aka taking our right to bear arms away? in the last four months he and the vice-president have participated in almost 20 anti-gun events. the president himself has given five speeches and he's about to speak again in denver, but as we reported yesterday, it's pretty clear that no major gun legislation is coming any time soon, so what is he up to? is he using guns as a distraction from things like a jobless economy, a north korean nutbag and a self-inflicted p.r. disaster in sequester? greg said it was okay for me to say nutbag. kimberly, what about it? gunnings, guns, guns. it appears there's going to be no major legislative events any time soon. >> i don't get it. who are they using for the
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polling that they think this is a good idea? clinton warned them to get off, quit riding the horse into the sun set. they're not getting anywhere. only 4% of americans think that gun control is the most important issue facing the country. why is he obsessing on it because there's sort of like the popular political goodwill? notice the back off of it with the kerry reed statement that they see they're alienating their constituents. >> the denver, colorado speech where the president is delivering i believe his sixth, his sixth speech on gun laws and gun control since newtown, connecticut. greg, what are your thoughts? >> well, the government hate gun owners because people can say no to the government. that will be the rea reason whye first thing you heard from president obama is about people who cling to their bibles and their guns. he doesn't trust people who have both, and so this will always -- this will always come back.
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i like habitat for human at that i'm for ratat for humanity. they provide gun to poor people and can create economic opportunity in cities like detroit and atlanta and chicago where they can make money because they're armed. i think everybody should be behind that. >> dana, why is it that fox and specifically the five, why are we the only people pointing out that no major gun legislation is probably likely, and he does 20 speeches, he and the vice-president do 20 speeches? >> well, okay. let's just step back for a second and think about perhaps merit and motivation. i believe that he was and has been personally affected, deeply affected by the events, the mass murders that happened during his presidency. he's not the first president to have to go through that, but he even said, remember the quote after newtown. he said that was the worst moment of my presidency. so i think that he -- they had this idea that he could achieve
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something legislatively. he has a problem on the communications. they haven't been persuasive, and instead of being more persuasive or changing their language or changing their events, they had joe biden out front who continued to get attention. you remember the shotgun thing, just get a shotgun, and it took them off message. then president obama got off track with sequestration and some fun things, a couple of the vacations, and people have walked away and said you know, we're so uneasy about the economy. we're not for this. it's slipping away from them even more and more ledge laysively -- legislatively. >> listen to the sound bite of president obama. this is president obama from the second debate, presidential debate. just listen. go ahead. >> weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. and so what i'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the
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violence generally? part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. >> bob, it's been on his plan, his agenda, all along. that was from the debate. did newtown just give him the opportunity? >> well, first of all, let me just correct one thing you said in your opening. he's not trying to take your guns away, number one. number two, i think it's fair to say that once in a while, a politician may actually be motivated by something even when the polls show that they're not. in this case, i think dana is exactly right. i think the newtown thing, whether it was his kids or what it was, it affecte affected him. there are certain times when you know you're going to lose but i say it's important to keep the conversation going. two, he's against terrible odds. part of this may be to salvage some pieces of what's left in the bill. i think mostly the guy believes in what he's saying, and i'm proud of him. >> i'm also, however naive i might be, when checking with a
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few people today, they said they actually think it's quite political, that it was -- today we had dan pfeifer saying that if the republicans oppose this, they'll probably lose the house in 2014. i mean, is a reason to stop in colorado because there is politics on the mind? probably. >> kimberly, he'll be in connecticut on monday. >> he will be. do you know where he'll be tonight? >> you know what? >> he'll be at a fundraiser. >> greg, go ahead. >> no. the one thing -- i agree that he was affected deeply by it, but so was everybody. what always bugged me was that the people that are hard core gun control will throw out this accusation that because you disagree with them on specifics of gun control that you have blood on your hands. >> right. >> remember, i think it was david frum who said that about the nra. you have lot of celebrities that say if you don't agree with him, you have blood on your hands. there are a lot of things that can be done. you can lock up crazy people, do things with sentencing for repeat offenders, you've got to
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balance your approach to gun. you capture talk about rifles and ignore the hand gun violence in chicago 96% of fire arm murders are hand gun murders. you're hypocritical. >> just quickly. obama is a smart politician. he knows what he's up against here. in the face of that, he's not going underground, he's speaking his mind. and i think more power to him. >> we'll leave it there. when this happened on last night's show, check out the picture. what would your caption be for this photo? check out facebook.com/the five fnc. get very creative, folks. >> and clean. >> i'll read the best one in one more thing. major announcement for nbc about the future of the tonight show and also robert redford said he was sympathetic to the cause of violent radical activists in the 1960s. he glamorizes them in his new movie. you'll hear from him and mr. gutfeld ... next. [ music ]
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>> so as a member of the weather underground, kathy budin helped kill three police officers including the first black one on his local polic police forges. her crime left nine kids without dads. she's scum and it's only fitting now like her terror pal she has a job on campus. in america terrorists get tenure and victims get forgotten. that's because in our contaminated culture, those who control it are winning. consider robert redford's new flick, the company you keep. it's about a weather undergrounder on the run from a journalist. yeah, as if journalists would chase a radical.
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maybe for an autograph. now, for a movie like this to work, you focus on fury, not fact, excuses, heinous behavior. could he have done a movie on the three dead cops? not even roy hobs could sugar coat that reality. red ford fabricated his terrorists so he can ditch the truth. fyi. i've not seen the flick. i've vowed not to see any film that induces vomiting. hollywood replaces the gore with lore. when thugs pit themself vi lengthily against society, somehow hollywood always favors the thugs. as redford said to a gushing george stephanopoulos on gma about the violence. >> even when you read about bombing? >> all of it. i knew that it was extreme, and i guess movements have to be extreme to some degree. >> wait. what if they had bombed the theaters showing your movies, robert? i guess the way your films have fared lately, bombing a bomb is
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redundant. you know, k.g., what if a hollywood director decided to do a nuanced take on the kkk? >> yeah. >> they could be construed as violent revolutionaries. why doesn't somebody do that now? >> well, because that wouldn't be p.c., and there's a certain list of things they feel it's okay to be revolutionary or communist or somebody who was for overthrowing, essentially, law and order and government. they think it's okay to do so if they believe in their cause. i mean, in this particular case, i don't understand. i feel like robert redford is confused because he shouldn't be glorifyinglorifying this in any, shape, or form. these were essentially domestic terrorists out to destroy the fabric of law and society that we have. they were murderers, and it's shameful. >> bob, there always tends to be a trend -- i know you get mad when i say the left, but they tend to romanticize protesters to even the extreme of the violent side. why is that?
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>> let me make a mention of kathy for a second. this woman who did a heinous crime, no question about it, but she served her time. in america, when you pay your debt to society, you have a right to go out and be free. >> and get tenure as a professor? >> i'm fine. i have no problem with it whatsoever. i'm sure there are a lot of people who commit heinous crienlcrimeswhen they were youne pretty good jobs. it's not up to us to decide what the legal issue is. if columbia wants to hire her, they paid her debt -- she paid her debt. i was part of the anti-war movement in the '60s and '70s. there was a fringe element of the anti-war movement that gave us the bad name, not the least of which was the weather underground. all people who did that were not that kind of people. i would hope redford's movie would make that clear. >> she should still be in jail. >> why? she paid her price. >> the underground founder is at the university of chicago. his girlfriend is at
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northwestern law, and now kathy is at columbia university. i don't want my kid learning from a radical activist. >> it's a good idea. take those schools off your list. there's a lost schools you've got to take off. >> that's the problem. >> putting these people in high profile positions at major jiewforts thauniversities that g thoughts of our young people. >> is there a shortage of good professors? >> i just find this assumption that you all have that every college -- i shouldn't say you all, you and greg particularly have, that all of these universities and colleges being dominated by radical leftist professors is just not accurate. >> but i think there's something more interesting here about how not working and the revolving door can work when it comes to academia and in particular, liberals. so she's not teachin teaching a political science class. she's teaching a social work
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class about what it's like for families to deal with all the trials and tribulations after a person has a family member coming out of jail. i guess she has a little bit of personal experience on that, but the left found her a job, okay. so if you can find a place in academia to get tenure, that would be -- it doesn't matter if you can teach on the merits of something or not. she's not teaching about political science. the baby boomer revisionist history of what happened in the '60s is coming to full light. robert redford, you could either go to hollywood or go to academia. >> it's not really -- well, when you say revisionist history, again, i repeat a small percentage. >> look at the cbs example. >> but listen. can i just -- never mind. >> why are we acting like this is okay? i don't care if she paid the time or not. she's a criminal, a disgusting human being. >> it's a question of whether it was legit for her to take the job, and it was.
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let me ask you. why if conservatives are so concerned about college campuses, why don't they go into teaching. >> that's a great question or get the students out of there sooner rather than later? >> seriously. i keep listening to radio people talk this up. let them go and get into college. >> have you ever seen a conservative try to speak on a college campus? they're heckled. >> the young republicans had to apologize for inviting ann cowl ter to speak. >> let's get this straight. the captain of business, of industry, of wall street, of finance are -- them are conservative, yet their hiring and actually -- they're hiring and actually requiring their new hires to come from some of these schools or most of the schools. >> i want to go back to the university i went to. i was asked several years later to go and give a commencement speech. as i was being introduced, i was insulted for being a republican right before my speech in front of the entire school. i was like why would i ever want to go into academia. >> i was asked to give a speech
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in california. from the moment i got out of the cab, until i finished my speech, i was not -- they were nice people. >> bob, what were you doing there? that's really not like a safe place for you to go. >> that story about the dean's s wife was not true. >> you did it again. >> they killed a black guard, a black cop, and also, i just want to let redford know. the manson family, they still need a really good movie and maybe you can do something on the unabomber, too. they were all radical revolutionaries. up next on the five, a massive cheatincheating scandal robs thl system. in a stunning twist, it's not the students in hot water. dana has the latest on the classroom controversy after the break. [ music ] [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work.
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colleagues on the five. ♪ >> so it's one of the worst cheatincheating scandals in they of american education. 35 atlanta public school teachers and administrators have been indicted on charges of large scale racketeering and corruption, accused of conspiring to cheat by boosting scores on standardized tests. they'll face jail time, heavy fines and falsified students' answers on the test in order to get more money. the cheating reportedly took place in 44 atlanta schools and involved 178 educators. as we mentioned, eric, only 35 were indicted. we were just talking in the break. how do you get a conspiracy
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going and have 178 people involved and nobody said anything? >> well, you don't. eventually you get caught as they did, but the really crazy part, i mean, look. here's a fascinating story and here's the way it breaks down. there's 50 or 60 billion dollars a year that's spent, that is doled out to various school districts, and what they've done, no child left behind, about 30 billion of that money goes through no child left behind and schools do better funding if they do better on the scores. so what they did is they conspired to bring the test scores up so they get more money. the question is, and i'm the one who says these teachers should always be scrutinized under productivity, how well their students are doing. look what they do when you give them an opportunity to do that. they cheat themselves. >> terrible. >> so what do you do? it's almost like an impossible game. they're going to get to the money one way or another. >> before no child left behind, one of president bush's platforms that he ran on in 2000 was education and the problem of all these students being passed
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through without being able to readr write. he said like he did as governor of texas. if you don't measure where a student is, how can you tell whether or not they improved and should there be incentives for teachers? okay. so that moves forward, there was a lot of controversy about that, but the states, kimberly, have layered on additional tests. the more tests you take, the more chances you have as a teacher to get more money. we only have a couple minutes. i'm sorry. i'll get to this. the superintendent made $580,000 in bonus money over 12 years. where is the outrage from the parents about how the kids were cheated in this scandal? >> that's the problem. you're missing the whole point of the story. yeah. this is why people are going to vouchers and charter schools and home schooling and the sense of entitlement comes from the teachers. we don't care about the kids education. who cares if little johnny doesn't know b comes after a? too bad. i'm going to get myself the new car with the special lease
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program down the block. it's disgusting, they should be fired. >> i'm not going to defend the cheaters. i think it was bad. they should go to jail. they represent only a small percentage of teachers, but having said that, so much now is dependent on these standardized tests. first of all, let me also say i think the unions should have never defended these teachers as they did, but so much is dependent on these tests, both in terms of money you get from washington, in terms of money you get from the state. in some cases they're using 30 and 35% of their class time to do standardized tests. it's ridiculous. i'm not dumping on bush alone. you do have to have measurements, but you don't have to have so many of them that that's all people get concerned about. that's how you get the money for your school. >> if you don't test, greg, how do you know kids are doing? >> how they dress. no. >> i mean, you can't argue that this is a fringe believe when the head of the union -- belief when the head of the union is blaming testing. that's basically blaming the road for your drunk driving. you need to have measurements.
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without measurements, you cannot -- measurements basically are a threat to incompetence. whenever i get very suspicious, and i see at least in our educational system the growth of a marxist secretariat, the teachers are building a brock see to benefits themself at the cost of the children. >> th in certain schools they'rp to 15 and 18 standardized tests a year. >> what's wrong wa with that? >> it's a terrible idea. >> tests are good. >> maybe i'm just bad because i got a 400 on my sat. >> you did not. >> 60% of high school students are graduating in some urban schools. >> randy weingarten is blaming the number of tests on why kids don't graduate. i wish teachers spent more time teaching than getting students ready to test. >> that's what she said.
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>> what a great example for students. if you get caught cheating on your test, you blame the test. that's exactly what the teachers did. >> we contacted congressman jack kington. he and he said when they moved forward with the department of education funding, they'll try to make sure that doesn't happen again. some people advocate to cut federal funding all together. directly ahead, a public school in ohio is in a fierce legal fight over this portrait of jesus which has been hanging there since 1947. the school district says that they can't afford a drawn out legal battle with the aclu. bob will tell you the rest of the story when we come back. ♪
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in a preemptive move, the school district has taken down the controversial portrait because they're worried about the financial cost of fighting a federal lawsuit. what do you think, greg? >> bob, we took a vote, the four of us took a vote and unanimously we voted to yield our time to the gentleman from 43rd street, you. >> that's very nice of you. i appreciate that. my block has been cut down to two minutes, so that's reason they're doing that. let me say i happened to talk to the head of the freedom from religion extensively this afternoon, and he told me that the reason that they did this was clearly a separation of church and state. i said to him if you allowed other pictures from other religious in a forum, would that be okay? he said i suppose that would be okay. i then asked him well, it's been 40 some years. why now? i mean, i has nobody up until nw noticed it? it turns out that this was given by a christian group in the school to one of the -- i think it was a faculty member who got
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killed in a car crash. they give it in his memory. i asked him wouldn't that make sense? instead of going after these guys for this one picture, just say everybody hang a picture? in lockers you can hang up whatever you want. i think, frankly, for those of us who are christian, i think we understand the separation of church and state. we really do. we're not trying to force our religion on everybody else, but i think there are certain times, like when you have nativity scenes in public square, as long as other people are given the chance to show their views of things, then i think it ought to be taken into account, and if that school would be willing to allow other people to do what this group has done, then i think it ought to stay up. if not, i suppose he's got a pretty strong argument. the other issue, of course, is why the insurance companies do not insure them, i don't know. i want to thank my friends for doing this for me. my block is over. >> can i make pint? >> yes, please. >> one of the reasons the school district was going to cave is they didn't want to waste
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taxpayer dollars on a long, drawn-out lawsuit with the aclu. maybe somebody in the community can come forward in a pro bono way and defend the school against the aclu. >> how do you celebrity the victory -- celebrate the victory when you win this thing? do you go out for beers. >> i'm being told your block is over, greg. it's been a pleasure to spend some time with you
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