President of the National Education Association, Dennis Van Roekel, talked about the importance of education. He said, “We ought to invest in education” referring to the recent cut of 6,000 teachers in New Jersey by Chris Christie to cut the tax of millionaires. Mr. Van Roekel reminisced living the dream of having the proper education to become a math teacher, yet lamented how students are being deprived of such privilege due to political actions. Moreover, he mentioned that the biggest threat of education is the believe that education is not important. Many politicians are cutting educational funding to benefit private sectors in such a way that they are willing to fired teachers believing that it would benefit our country. Mr. Van Roekel
