"Well they have to deal with the Look, there is institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved I started dealing with that. Redlining. Banks. Making sure that we're in a position where Look, talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title 1 schools, triple the amount of money we spend from 15 to 45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise that equal [closes eyes] raise to getting out the sixty-thousand-dollar level.
"Number two: make sure that we bring into the help the [closes eyes] the student, the, the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home. We need We have one school psychologist for every fifteen hundred kids in America today. It's crazy. The teachers are recaNow, I'm married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. [Closes eyes briefly]
We have make sure that every single child does in fact have three, four, and five-year-olds go to school~~school, not daycare. School. We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It's not that they don't wanna help, they don't want-they don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television, [closes eyes tightly] the 'scuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the-the-the-the phone, make sure the kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school, [closes eyes] a very poor background, will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time they get there."
>>>>Notice how it gets more garbled the longer he speaks. The response I transcribed was about eighty seconds in length. That was just one small part of a debate in which the former vice president performed no better and forgot three of his fellow candidates' names.
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