[Lemon:] We're talking about school education and how to handle challenging high school kids. Well, there may be no better person to turn to than CNN education contributor Steve Perry. His latest book is called "Push Has Come to Shove: Getting our kids the education they deserve". Earlier, I asked him about a troubling video out of Chicago that has gotten a whole lot of attention. I'm not sure if you've seen this video. I think I'm pretty sure you have seen it. It's out of Chicago, I'm talking about. I want to take a quick look at this. Let's put it up now. These teenagers, they gang up on this kid, it is a kid and the kid there's a kid that's been charged, one is in jail now. He's charged as an adult, right? Eight kids have been charged, I should say. This video is amazing. Does this sort of thing surprise you?
[Steve Perry, Cnn Education Contributor:] No.
[Lemon:] Really?
[Perry:] Not at all. In fact, unfortunately, it becomes too common. What happens is the typical bullying has gone to a whole different level. You get any kid with a phone and no good sense and they begin to videotape these things. What you see, really, is that this is an indication, not just of the child who is being hurt, but the hurt children who are around them, because in order for you to cause such harm to someone else, you can't love yourself. That's what we're seeing.
[Lemon:] As you're talking, I'm looking at this video and they are kicking this kid. You can see, kicking him in the face and in the head. I don't I don't understand it. I don't understand it.
[Perry:] People don't understand things in our schools are so much worse than I think most people realize. It's really bad in many schools because so many children feel so broken inside.
[Lemon:] So what do you do? I mean we always say, ok, you here's the thing that I know. I'm not a parent but I know this.
[Perry:] Sure.
[Lemon:] There's only so much that you can do at a school. Home training, it starts in the home. But what can you do to make kids feel safe when they're
[Perry:] We're the professionals. We're the ones who are trained to make children feel better. We can create a lot. Of course home needs to play a role but we have your children for six and a half to sometimes eight, nine hours a day. We should play a very vital role in that. It's not one or the other. However, we as educators, I see it as my responsibility. When someone says in Hartford that some kid in a blazer, because our kids wear blazers, is having a fight downtown, we get in the car and we go down there to make sure it's not one of ours. Because if it is, then there's going to be a whole problem; there will be two fights then.
[Lemon:] There's going to be two fights if he finds out it's one of his kids. Never shy with his words. That is CNN's education contributor Steve Perry. Steve, thank you very much. Coming up, your personal finances. Are you sticking to your new year's resolutions? We'll talk with personal finance expert Nicole Lapin to get answers to your questions.