i know she was you write about the difficulty of her teaching and what it was like after she left the white house the first time. now she s back at the white house and she s still teaching. i think one of the things that is interesting, this is not an act. her teaching is not just something she talks about. her schedule is really dominated by her teaching schedule. that really comes first for her. so everything else that gets built around it, all her travel, all her official appearances as first lady get built around her schedule as a teacher. when she s in the classroom, she s dr. biden and her students in some cases don t know that she s first lady. certainly when she was second lady and a little lower profile, they really had no idea that she had this whole other life outside of the classroom. yeah. i know aides say sometimes she s grading papers on air force two when she s on the plane and traveling places. i really think this is something that is very important to her, she
schools to shut down. our denver affiliate has the story. the first of two straight days of teacher walk-outs in colorado. thousands of educators, mostly from douglas and jefferson county schools, descending upon the state capital asking lawmakers for more funding, better pay and yes, protections for their retirement. i have, you know, collected some receipts of all these supplies i have had to self-fund. heidi from douglas county schools wore a skirt made of receipts to show how much money she s put into her classroom, money that will never be reimbursed. i feel embarrassed asking my students to bring in kleenex so i buy boxes of collie nix kleenex. i m hoping to talk to a representative. we are grading papers.
to become a teacher. i want to teach. a police officer and a teacher have two different mind sets. a teacher wants to be there to support a student. however, a police officer has a total different mind set. so for me personally, i would not carry a gun. i think it also takes away from what you re doing as a teacher. a teacher has a million and one things to do. grading papers. calling parents. so the last thing you want to be is a correction officer trying to follow up on a teacher. i think about other casualties that will come behind that. so for me what do you mean by that? for me thinking about casualties as we ve had several moments within, you know, african-american community. we have other casualties in schools where teachers may have felt threatened and it wasn t a real threat. we had other things in school. so i wouldn t do it then. i also think about the person carrying a gun. if i m responsible going into a hallway to shoot a gun, a 6 1
welcome back. i want to get back to the idea of arming teachers which the president says would deter gunman and help keep kids safe. he suggested allowing 20% of the faculty to have guns. here s the thing. if 20% of public school teachers were armed, that would work out to more than 600,000 nationwide. that would be more than the total number of active duty soldiers currently serving in the u.s. army. i m joined now by alexis underwood, a seventh grade english teacher and former marine. i know you ve been grading papers in the last few minutes. i ve got a sixth grader at home who grading papers is something he has nightmares about. walk us through. you are exactly the type of person the president says should be armed to protect our kids. you re a former marine. you re a teacher. you understand both. what do you think of his idea? i think it s a horrible idea.
we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression. and everywhere i look. i m reminded to stick to my plan. including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula that the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything. on this day in 1937, toll keen published the hobbit. he reportedly came up with the story while grading papers at oxford in england, writing the short line, in a hole in the ground there richard a hobbit. that one line became the basis for an entire series of books, including lord of the rings. that led to a movie franchise compete with talking trees,