with teachers to improve their practice in -- so i go into classrooms to watch a teacher teach, unannounced have an open-door policy. that is pro abducted -- prohibited in the teachers' contract. it's hard to run a school where everything is being determined. what you need to do to meet the needs of teachers -- of children is constantly refined the school schedule. if there is a problem today, we can fix it by the end of the day. >> what did she do in new york city? >> she is a public advocate >> with the unions talk to you? >> no, unfortunately not. going into it, i was very interested in the whole picture. and in no way from a partisan perspective. unfortunately they declined, and we tried very hard from day one up until we -- i was so determined that i would include them in this picture and i thought it was important but they did not. >> why did they not talk with mark >> the reason that they gave was that they did not have time. i would imagine that over the course of the year, that probably justified that it was not worthwhile. this is my first film, so it to be fair, not many people w

so i all the time go into classrooms as do my principals to watch a teacher teach unannounced. we have an open-door policy. that's prohibited in the teacher's union contract. it's very, very hard to run a school where everything is pre-determined. because what you need to do in order to meet the needs of children is you need to constantly refine your school design and school schedule. there's a problem today, we can fix it by the end of the day. >> betsy does what in new york city? >> she was a public advocate that's an elected position. she has since retired. >> would the unions talk to you? >> no. unfortunately, not. you know, again, going into it i was very interested in the whole picture. and in no way from a sort of a partisan perspective. but, unfortunately, they declined. we tried very hard from day one actually up until we locked picture. i was so determined that i was going to include them in this film. and i thought it was very important, their vision for public education going forward. >> why not? why wouldn't they talk? >> well, the reason they gave is that they did

and one of the primary things ought to be unannounced inspections. if you just take the most minimum standards, and the right to work in-state, arkansas. your g.g.p.a. and osha standards are federally mandated. if you don't like the standards, change it. but you don't go for a free market which is really a free for all. and so i wish the tea party people, even our vietnam veterans. wake up. i saw a pair of slacks made the vietnam. think about that. the blood of our soldiers in vietnam. and yet these politicians will trade our very manufacturing to the very countries that we fought? and there's no give up. in vietnam. the vietnamese. host: but if you take that analogy, we buy german cars and japanese products and we were at war with them in world war ii. >> and they surrendered. germany has standards. so those are the things. china is a communist country. and they have no standards. so those are the things that you should look up what you should do. >> robert. thank you for the call. president hu jintao who is in town for the summit for the obama admi