and we need to be on top of this. because america struggles in its education standards and these teachers and their supporters in the families of the students are taking to the streets to get that message heard. thank you in oklahoma city. i want to turn two people who are also participating in the walkout. on your left, randy wine garden rallying and president of the american federation of teachers and one of the country s largest public sector unions an melissa smith is a criminal justice teacher at grant high school in south oklahoma. two master s degrees in teaching. thank you for being here. melissa, let me start with you. we don t meet a lot of people who go into teaching because they think they re going to get rich do doing it. but the problems are two fold, one is your salary and the other is there has been a per capita decrease in many parts of the country, say compared to ten years ago, in how much is spent per student. so you are ending up with older textbooks, classroom