You asked:

“Are you really John Stossel?”

Is it too much to believe there’s more than one person who thinks the public school system needs a major overhaul?

No, I am not John Stossel, though in the 70s I had a similar mustache.

Are you really John Stossel? You sound like him. However, I must admit your comments are a little more intelligent than how he came off on the 20/20 propaganda piece.

There is no excellent balance between public and private colleges educating millions. The public colleges are starving for funding as politicians divert educational resources into pork leaving many excellent public colleges to delay contracts with their professors, raise student fees astronomically, raise tuition, deal with severe cuts to Pell, TAP, etc., hire adjuncts to replace full professors, and so on.

In the name of “higher standards,” the senior public colleges have cut remediation and have turned that responsibility to the community colleges as a cost-saving measure. Even the Ivy league colleges offer remediation.

Public education is being attacked from K-12 and at the collegiate level. When the governor of this state can say that it is only required to fund public education up to an 8th grade level, there can be no balance. Interestingly enough, in this global market of ours, China, India, Europe, etc. are funding public education at record levels offering free public education to all. That’s what we used to have in America. Today, China has more college graduates than we have citizens in the U.S. and what a coincidence that America’s jobs are being exported there. The reality is that there is no free market. Some countries invest and some don’t. We are approaching the latter.

You wrote:

“I think we finally know No-Slappz real name!”

Really? Who am I?

You wrote:

“Let’s see how would a free market education system work? Definitely no government regulations! Definitely no union control!”

If you want a view of a relatively free-market education system that works extraordinarily well, go no further than the college and university system in the US.

It’s an excellent balance of public and private schools educating millions of students with enviable success.

You also wrote:

“So those that have the resources, win; those that don’t, lose.”

I paid for college with no parental help — and I went to a private university. It really wasn’t that tough.

Check out his products for teachers: “Is America #One” In this video Stossel studies the causes of wealth by comparing USA, India, and Hong Kong and shows that wealth for a nation is generated by removing regulations and government control.

Another one is called “The Price System” and delves into the free market system of economics. Another is about the “Foundations of Wealth.” And another called Jonathan Gullible- A Free Market Odyssey.

Let’s see how would a free market education system work? Definitely no government regulations! Definitely no union control!

So those that have the resources, win; those that don’t, lose.

As long as the Unity patronage mill continues to run the UFT plantation-style, the quality of this profession will decline right along with the standards of its sloppy, entrenched, and startlingly indifferent leadership.

From all acoounts, our “ideal commander” came off no better than a deer in the headlights. Hardly a sterling moment in unionism.

The endemic ganging up, ( it goes beyond the usual reactionary suspects ) against us is a new mutation of the virus of bigotry. Like all others, it has its own corrupt inspirations and pretexts.

We can neither humor our enemies by telling them to go to hell, nor honor them with the veto of our right to live. We are sucked into war that we do not seek and they will not shun. Combat takes many forms, and the Union must learn to be at home with more of them. We will win nothing unless we risk everything.

The only way to match wits with those who would destroy us is to cross swords with them. Chart the battles. Draw first blood. And Randi is our ideal commander. T