[Sam Cree]

Funny.

[jazzlite]

We have so few John Stossel's around. I sometimes wonder if the US would not be much closer, politically, to Cuba or Venezuela if we did not have folks like John, Bill O'Riley, Rush Limbaugh, and a handful of others out there day after day exposing the powermongers and their agenda. The politicization of public education in America has probably destroyed our future. It would seem that even the most decadent politician would not have wanted that. I suppose they only care about personal aggrandizement and power, thinking someone else will come along to bear the burden of cleaning up the mess. When messes get too big, they have to be scrapped and an entirely new structure has to be built. In my view, this is what needs to happen in public education. Take the power of the socialists or worse away and give it to people who care about educating children.

[Glenn]

students learn to do PowerPoint demonstrations

What do they demonstrate for or against?

[SIDENET]

"We got high schools, we got elementary schools, we got junior high schools!"

An English teacher, perhaps? At least this teacher didn't say "We gots high schools", etc.

[JohnEBoy]

The whole thing seems odd to me. It was the teacher's union who challenged Stossel to "try teaching for a week". In other words, he didn't understand their "challenges". Fine. So he accepted. Then they pulled out of the deal. Here was an opportunity for the world to see how difficult it is to teach and how the teachers need more pay, smaller classes, more computers, yada, yada, yada and yet they ultimately decided that this publicity would not help their union members. Is it possible that the teacher's unions and the administrative beauacracies are their own worst enemies?

[Condor51]

Randi Weingarten, head of New York City's union, took the microphone and hollered, "Just teach for a week!" She said I could select from many schools. "We got high schools, we got elementary schools, we got junior high schools!"

"We got"??? Apparently English is 'union head' Randi's second language. It's "we have" Randi, "we have". Even in New York where you all talk 'funny' - it's still "we have".

BTW, Stossel falls into the same 'language trap' with his "Lots of people". That should be "A lot of people".

[Tax-chick]

Totally unsurprised at this.

[AD from SpringBay]

The Teacher's Union probably thought they would teach him a lesson and burn up so much cash and resources from 20/20 that Stossel would regret his interaction with them. This is just the latest round. Stay tuned.

[redgolum]

The union can not allow any one to see what happens in schools. Might disrupt their on going whines for more money.

[joe fonebone]

bump for later

[Mr. Brightside]

"We got high schools, we got elementary schools, we got junior high schools!"

I assume these weren't ENGLISH teachers.

[wideawake]

Teachers in NYC with little experience can get paid $45,000 to work only 900 hours a year. $50 a hour to babysit.

That's about one-third the hours that normal NYers work.

They also get a swank benefits package and guaranteed lifetime job security if they can manage not to show up to work high on crack or sodomize one of their young charges.

[Tanniker Smith]

I was just reading about the offer and the challenges in the NYC teachers' newspaper.

THe funny thing is that the challenge is No-Win for the teachers union: either he shows how bad the schools are, or he shows how he can't teach for a single week -- except that the school can get rid of him at the end of the week. You can't get rid of a bad teacher so easily.

[Minnesocold]

Too bad. Letting cameras into schools would be a good thing. Taxpayers might finally get to see how more than $200,000 per classroom of their money was being spent.

I hope more students like Colorado's Sean Allen record and expose their kook teachers' rants. We also have Evan Coyne Maloney exposing colleges.

[Wolfie]

I wonder what else our cameras might see.

Wouldn't matter. If its one thing I've learned in 30 plus years of watching tv news magazine shows exposing all manner of corruption and wrongdoing, its that nobody really gives a carp, and nothing ever changes.

[Drango]

Stossel bitch slaps union.

[Caleb1411]

The school principal had me sit in on a class with a "superstar" teacher. It was supposed to be a history class, but he seemed to teach "victimhood in racist America." On the class door he posted a New York Times column denouncing the president for spending too much money on war. Can we say "left-wing"?

[VOA]

Stossel or the teachers: who will blink?
that was a no-brainer!