i want to thank michael for being a great hardball host while i was away over the holidays. i couldn t have a better person being here when i m not. which is not that often. on that point, i was with my family the last two weeks, kathleen managed to get out the holiday card this year, i love it, and i want to share it with everybody. there s kathy and me at her birthday party last summer, thomas and caroline in the corner. thomas is an actor now, appearing for the last two seasons as a recurring cast member on newsroom he s also in american hustle. caroline is with google right now, doing a great job, she just got a promotion, in fact. michael s there with he and sarah, his young daughter, our granddaughter, the wonderous julia, sarah is an attorney out in l.a., michael who produced a film that got into sundance last year, is working as a screenwriter. i can t tell you how proud kathleen, who s going to be on the show tomorrow are of our
being a great hardball host while i was away over the holidays. i couldn t have a better person being here when i m not. which is not that often. on that point, i was with my family the last two weeks, kathleen managed to get out the holiday card this year, i love it, and i want to share it with everybody. there s kathy and me at her birthday party last summer, thomas and caroline in the corner. thomas is an actor now, appearing for the last two seasons as a recurring cast member on newsroom he s also in american hustle. caroline is with google right now, doing a great job, she just got a promotion, in fact. michael s there with he and sarah, his young daughter, our granddaughter, the wondrous julia, sarah is an attorney out in l.a., michael who produced a film that got into sundance last year, is working as a screenwriter. i can t tell you how proud
heahe is out there, facebook me, a kid under seven is legally incapable of forming malintent, other than if he should turn over the candy board to his sister. there is a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sex harassment, when you re dealing with a 6-year-old, that is nuts, the school should be held liable for that. the school thinks he did something wrong. she is ignoring the prior histo history, there is another incident in which he actually kissed this little girl, who by the way has a problem with it. this kid what is really a problem here is the fact that it trivializes actual cases of sexual harassment between adults right, don t start until you re a teenager. right, this is a real problem, saying this is an example of sexual harassment, we re basically delegitimatizing the other cases in the country.
students, but the district out in l.a. paid him $40,000 to resign. they paid him to get rid of him. a guy that pled guilty to molesting kids. that is the kind of story that makes people say, the union! all right, i totally agree. when i was in new york city, we made sure we had the strictest rules about that stuff. there should never be anyone guilty of sexual misconduct teaching our kids. or who gets one dollar of the school i don t disagree with you. but the bottom line is, the bottom line is, we got to keep the great teachers. we got to make sure we value teachers. and i agree we have to keep the great ones, but we have to boot the bad ones. thank you. thank you for joining us, we ll continue it another time. we re less than two weeks from a critical deadline that could leave millions without health insurance. brit hume with what it means for the white house and the country. plus, the 6-year-old suspended for sexual harassment.
project-based instruction for kids which is what i had when i was growing up and what is project based instruction. meaning like if you have a robotics course, if kids are actually making robotics, look at the ibm tech school in new york that the president has just been to. the performance consortium schools where kids actually do a dissertation-like study. all right, it is a different approach. let me ask you one more question. let me just also say you have to have early kindergarten and wrap around services and you have to level the playing field for poor kids. here is my other question, the union took a lot of flak for standing up for bad teachers, the union says it is due process, due process. but one example, which is one of many, this one guy, mark bernt, a veteran teacher who pled guilty to lewd acts of the