Steve Strieker, a veteran teacher in Janesville, Wisconsin, has written a fable about the Free Market Fairy.
The Free Market Fairy solves all education problems.
When the Free Market Fairy sprinkles its magic across the community, the problems of poverty and segregation disappear.
If you believe in the Free Market Fairy, don’t pay attention to the men behind the curtain.
They will distract you.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
There is no “free” market.
As Matt Taibbi points out in Rolling Stone,
“”The world is a rigged game…the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything…too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion worth of financial instruments…ICAP, the world’s largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess…It’s about a $379 trillion market…the players implicated in this scheme are the same megabanks – including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland – making this a manipulation-on-manipulation situation”
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425
And even all this largesse is not enough for the fat cats. They want even more.
And they see BIG profits to be made from public education.
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In Free Market Fairyland, Invisible Hand Clap You
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or Invisible hand hands you clap??
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Keep up the good work, Diane.
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To Steve Strieker, democracy (is that his real name?) and all those who love to bash that which feeds them every day, I take great pleasure in playing the Devil’s Advocate. My thoughts and work to bring the Russian School of Mathematics to a free market where the only competition is the political system of public education.
As a teacher, Steve believes his job is to eliminate poverty, put a stop to segregation and be the hero for social justice. To Free the Teacher means Steve should spend his time in the classroom where he will succeed or fail by being able to sell or not sell his curriculum content in a free market.
Dick Velner – Parent, Teacher and Curriculum Writer
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Still looking to make a sale here Mr. Velner? Good luck with that. Remember, when no one can buy your product you lose too.
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