look, that was a boneheaded mistake by the archbishop of atlanta. even if in fact the pope wasn t preaching about austerity, the image of literally tens of thousands of school children that are being shut out of catholic schools because of the arch dice ses and others, that s not the image that the church should be projecting at this time so it was a boneheaded mistake by the archbishop and whether it s pizza parties or teas or whatever the case may be, that s ridiculous for anyone to have that type of lifestyle. that being said, just to flip the coin here, there are a bunch of other leaders in this country who run churches, earning millions of dollars a year and have massive media empires. is this archbishop held to a different standard? i think the standard is the
you ask part-time why don t you have coverage, they ll say because we can t afford it. treating everybody the same and means republicans have to insinuate themselves and prevent 5 million people from getting the coverage they deserve. you know, koch-sponsored organizations are also hosting, listen to this they re going further with hosting events for college students on college campuses to get young people to reject the affordable care act. they host pizza parties, dance parties with deejays. they ll hand out beer koozies that read opt out. they re going all out with trying to turn young people off of something that young people really need. my advice to them is to drink their beer, eat their pizza and
here. brian: free breakfast on us and it s a lunch item. steve: i think i m going to need a breath mint. there is some onions on here. brian: steve, i have some floss in the bathroom. gretchen: bring some of that grub back in here, too, if you don t mind. brian: a blimpie sophisticated hero is what you mean. gretchen: oh. brian: what, are you in the military? gretchen: i saw military up here. it says we re gutting our military thanks to sequester. brian: it needs our helmets. gretchen: what s stopping the doj from throwing pizza parties. brian: we told you about miranda kerr hanging up her angel wings. this morning there is a twist to her wing. gretchen: breaking news. brian: i will tell you. this day calls you.
eric: hello. i m eric boling. and joining us this week is julian epstein and what has him fired up bus first to the teachers and administrators in atlanta accused of inflating standardized test scores to win performance bonuses. some reportedly throwing pizza parties while changing incorrect answers. teachers unions saying the test crazed policies to improve scores. kimberly, blame the teachers that are cheating or blame the testimonies? blame the tests. they are retiring with pensions while we are graduating with kids that can t read maybe at a fourth or fifth grade level that are a burden to the economy because they are not going to be able to get a good job to support themselves.
yes. they had pizza parties to correct the scores. what i m saying is with that many bad teachers or principals or a bad superintendent, i think that s it s too many bad apples. it s a bad system in total that this was brought up. that it then breeds or grows the bad apples. hold on. i like to think that teachers are better spirited than that, have better intentions than that but the pressure is so high. if you made me chancellor of teachers in the u.s., and said, donny, fix it, i m dumb in a lot of things but i m a pretty good business guy. i would say, we ve got to give scores. i don t want what the other answer is. i want to elevate it sausage grinder. this is what we decide is progress and what isn t? the reality is there s no system that s perfect, and somehow you have to grade these teachers. and if you re going to grade them and reward them