Mm

... traveling.

Uh, it'd be a whole day of traveling to go see my father because it seemed like they put him in the farthest spot possible.

So, you know, we'd spend all day traveling, we'd leave at night, we'd come home at night.

And, you know, growing up, that's, that was the norm for me.

And, um, I didn't know anything different than, you know, a visiting room and, you know, seeing my father.

I can still remember going to this, we used to call it the castle.

Fuming

In tonight's Brief But Spectacular, Martinez makes the case for why public education remains a smart investment.

Public education, to me, is equivalent to our democracy.

If we don't have a strong public education system that will accept everyone, that will be competitive with all the private schools in the area, then, uh, I don't see our democracy thriving as it has for the past 250 years.

(clapperboard snaps) (instrumental music) I am the principal of Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.

I'm responsible for approximately 900 students, uh, daily.

Whatever it takes to engage children at an elementary school, I am game for.

I've been everything from Elliot from E.T., Willy Wonka, I've been Woody, the cowboy, setting the tone, and embrace elementary school, uh, for all that it has to offer.