the teachers have responsibility, the parents have responsibility, the children have responsibility. i met a young woman, her mother a high school dropout, no father. her mother taking care of a household of other children and two factory jobs. this child had to raise herself and her siblings. if a teacher had not intervened, given her money for a college education and told her how to apply, she would not be at east tennessee right now. there's a fundamental role for a teacher when there's a vacuum. >> frankly, most teachers want to play that role. we know we're more than teachers we're moms, dads, guidance counselors, all of these things. but what's happening these days we have more and more of these roles at the same time where there's an epidemic of bad teachers. what we should say let's prepare teachers to be the best they can