teacher what has she done wrong and he gives for guidance and no explanation, so she is feeling very unmotivated. he asked the students one day who has a problem with me and what is the problem? as they raised their hands he became defensive and angry and shut the conversation down, the next day he told the students that if they said bad things to their parents he would say bad things about them. so my daughter fears retribution in the classroom if she speaks to her parents, i really believe that the irreversible damage has been done to my child. he has broken the trust with me as the parent and lost the respect of my daughter and the best solution at this point is for him to be removed. it is inrek son silable. >> good evening, julian phillip a proud parent of a third grader in the same class. i echo the same sentiments that my friends and colleagues have mentioned. i am very concerned for my son, he is a very bois ter yus and happy student and he has described the class as boring, scary, violent, upsetting, and he is very nervous about going to school. he has cried about going to school which

. >> had you discover the secret to motivate the unmotivated student? >> the only tool that you have is persistence and your enthusiasm and excitement. if i am excited they are excited. the other thing i tried to do was tried to connect everything to their lives if i teach julius caesar 80 negative understand this life is important they say there is a time it is mired in misery is a and do you understand that? but i think it is persistence i have a challenge jane kid in the book. he graduated by the way but to there is a scene where even visit him in jail. not really but again it is so tough. how the duet? and here is the duty. after the story i will finish. i have a chance to take the kids to near city. all of a sudden and see what side story and go to my friends restaurant. teachers wanted to be chaperones. [laughter] okay. by the time i think it was three students /1 teacher. [laughter] but then i heard it the principal wanted to come on the trip. the kids are like yes. where going to yorker price of less than. who was going with us? and a couple of

. >> have you ever motivated the unmotivated or defy a student? >> i just -- the only tool you have is persistence. the only tool you have -- and the other tool, you think there's anyone other tool. it's your enthusiasm and excitement for the task they teach you. but i'm excited about it, you know, they're excited about it. the other thing i tried to do because of how i felt about my own experience was i try to connect everything to their lives. so if i'm teaching julius caesar and i'm telling them that they should understand this life is so important, when they go find anthony, he says in the affairs of men there is a tie on the fortune, omitted the rest of his life. he said i understand that. but i think it's just persistence. i do particularly challenging kid in the book. i changed his name. he graduated, by the way. but i just wouldn't give up on in. i mean it. and there's even a scene where i go visit him in jail. not really jail, but you know. so again, it goes back to the young lady's question. how do you do it? is a calling. and then here'

could actually help him with his base, a base, by the way, that seemed to be picked on and very unmotivated. >> it's not a fatal move for romney. i think what this does on the down side for them, and really on the down side, is that it plays into the whole white house narrative about mitt romney. that he's somebody who is out of touch, he doesn't understand people like me, he doesn't care about the middle class. you know, when you call 47% of voters people who consider themselves victims, that's not a good thing to do. it also plays into the narrative that he doesn't believe anything. will he say the same thing privately, or allegedly privately to a group of fund raisers that he would out in public? but, you know, nothing is a fatal blow these days in politics. hardly anything. as you point out, these polls can gyrate. the president has come down from his post convention bounce, and so you know, we have got a bunch of time left to go. >> we do. i mean, when you look at it that way. and doug, how can mitt romney recover from whatever blow he has taken? and certainly, among those in the middl

veiled to try to figure a stereo type that stipulates a notion that welfare recipients are lazy and unmotivatentinue aation . attack against poor women and poor children and not an attack on poverty. there are no problems with truasbestosy and no ghost that said welfare resievients and their children are errant in attending school. if there is it a truancy problem. then what we should find out reasons why they are not going to school. department. humans would be better served if miss cheril who is a wonderful person could figure out how to break out food stamps that are coming in at 1.29 sents a day per person. it is it a red herring. >> gretchen: do you believe that kids will get a better education if they show up for school? >> i believe that all education is important and that edcadings is it a way out of the poverty. i don't believe in order to make education available to kids we do is threaten the parents and the rest of the family with cutting off benefits. those are two different arguments. >> gretchen: in new york they pay kid toz go to school. do you see this as an incentive for paren