education. i understand the concerns parents are raising. i also understand that we cannot have individualized plans for learning for every single student when we have overcrowded classrooms and underpaid teachers who are simply struggling to get by. georgia has a teacher shortage and we are hemorrhaging teachers. in part because the starting salary in georgia is less than the starting salary in mississippi. it's $39,000 a year. i have planned to raise that starting salary to $50, 000, yet, the governor saying we can't afford it. he can afford to give billionaires and millionaires 10,000 dollar tax cuts, but he can't afford to give teachers an 11,000 dollar pay raise, that's bad math, it's also bad for education. what parents want, when any good person wants is for children to have good education, to feel safe in that classroom, and to know that they're being taught the truth. unfortunately, this governor has brand children, he's banned books, he's banned teacher is telling the truth, he's doing everything in his power to