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?
Unquestionably. Unfortunately, they're also students' and the taxpayers' worst enemies, too!