ms. weingarten. the last time she was on, she complained about needing funding constantly. this time, she is complaining about needing funding constantly. i really wish, and this is a statement/question. how about teaching the students critical thinking skills? reading, writing, arithmetic and stop with the social engineering scenarios? i thank you and i will take your answer off the air. guest: i could do the answer either way but i agree with you, we have to teach about critical thinking. we have to teach kids how to think and not what to think. that's what i hope i did all the time. i was asked the question about the president budget and i'm not sure -- i was trying to be responsive to the question. i don't know weary taught but thank you for teaching for 35 years. i appreciate that and thank you for teaching kids. i taught in brooklyn. when i taught, we had to scavenge for chalk. we need to have all kinds of material in school. we ended up as a union, making sure about 800 people, it hundred school teachers this year, look at the needs that school teachers have. on marc