number two, i don't think the solution is milton academy. i loved milton academy, don't get me wrong. i'm grateful for it. but overwhelmingly children get their educational opportunities in the traditional district schools. and the question to me is not how we make a way for a few in special settings, but how we make the traditional district schools sing. and many do. nobody notices that. by the way, there's some great charters and some crappy charters -- excuse me, crummy charters too, right? [laughter] there's a variety of performance. the question is how do we allow the kind of creativity and space to try things, to meet kids where they are, not do the same thing in every, in every district school so that those district schools can sing? so i have a lot of -- i try to focus there rather than -- i'm sorry, i'm just being candid with you. i try to focus there rather than on vouchers. i'll read some of these? okay. after working in one of boston's turn-around schools, i'm curious as to your views on steps that should be taken to improve bost

in 1970 i got a breakthrough a program called a better chance to go to milton academy. and for me that was like landing on a different planet. i saw it for the first time the night before classes began in 1970 all by myself. my family didn't see it until graduation day. i remember they had a dress code in those days, the boys wore jackets and ties to classes so when the clothing list arrived, my grandparents splurged on a brand new jacket to wear to class. but a jacket on the south side of chicago was a windbreaker. so the first day of class the boys were putting on their blazers and tweed coats, and there was i in my windbreaker. i want to point out that i have figured it out. [laughter] again, there were teachers and other adults who reached out and helped. i went on to harvard college, the first in my family to go to college, to harvard law school. i've lived in chicago and boston and los angeles and new york, here in d.c., in atlanta, in the sudan. i've done business all over the world. i've had some remarkable experiences, improbable ones in the eyes of many. i've