i feel the hook, ms. carol. [laughter] anyway, i just want to thank you so much. by the way, i wrote 90,000 words, just so you get an idea. i decided i wanted to write this book was painful. it really was. i found a book about writing called first he fixed the refrigerator. [laughter] you will do anything rather than sit down. i'll fix the refrigerator. but anyway, i wrote 90,000 words. some of my friends say he wrote a book lights come on, give me a break. so i want to be honest, i did have somehow. i handed in my manuscript. i was so proud. it was an amazing feeling to push the send button. in a high started doing it? i was getting so distracted i would go to sleep at 7:00 and wake up at two in the morning and read until 6:00 and then go to the gym, work out a mac can go my god, what is that? but i wrote 90,000 words, handed in my manuscript and they said was that to get you an editor. and it got me this wonderful woman who really helped me and somehow she found 75,000 predicted words do matter and that's how i got the book. anyway, i know we're going to spend s

>> ms. carol, the great principal there, who's tough, said to me would you like to come back? greatest compliment she could have paid me because at the beginning she was very skeptical. i said, you know, at my age, i'm not sure i want to care this much about anything. i mean, it is so overwhelming. other than my own kids. >> and you had your own kids. >> imagine this. you got 150 teenagers you've got to take care of. nobody talks about this. 150 kids you have to be responsible for. you're not only responsible for them day-to-day, you're responsible for their futures. this is the one tenth grade english class that's going to count. now, what happens -- you're a new teacher and you're committed and you're there. what happens if you get married and have a couple of kids? now you have that and that. it's a tough job. >> it is a tough job. you've shined a light on it. tony danza, thank you so much. the book again is called "i'd like to apologize to every teacher i've ever had." we're back in a moment. >>> still to come on "today," anti-american protests continue throughout the midd

ms. rico from cesar chavez school. >> good evening president yee, superintendent carandza, number of the board and public. i am honored and proud to award carol wood our secretary at cesar chavez. she has served the district for 20 and a half years. she is bilingual in spanish and american sign language. she's an incredibly cherished and loved member of our community, and she has seen many generations of students and parents, and i am proud and behalf of the community to present this award to her. congratulations carol. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i just want to say over these 20 years seven principals and all the change they have seen i feel very lucky to have been at one school for all those years. i had a few summer school assignments at different sites but i love cesar chavez and it's pretty exciting to me working with the children of the children who were there in 1992 when i began. this is a great honor. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> and we have a special rave award for special service, and to make that presentation i would like to ask principal doug dent to please make the presen