Stossel has the hornets buzzing all around their disturbed nest. Here is a sample of the sort of childish “refutation” his program has elicited.

When I judge debates, I often see this: The negative team has nothing to say against the affirmative case, so they try to change the subject to whatever they are prepared to debate. Similarly, the writer in this screed doesn’t want to say anything to remind people about the high school kids who can hardly read, the criminal teachers who can’t be fired, the incredible waste of money on Kansas City schools only to see academic performance continue to decline or other substantive points Stossel made to show the failing of government schools. Instead, he murmurs darkly about how the program didn’t tell the viewers that Jay Greene works for a conservative think tank and other irrelevancies.