Klein, believe it or not, just published a memoir about how he fixed the school system, entitled “Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools.” The reviews on Amazon are obvious plants, praising him as an innovator and true visionary.

Please help discredit these bogus reviews and/or provide your own respectful account of Klein’s delusional memoir, which also happens to be published by Harper Collins, a division of [Rupert Murdoch’s] News Corp.

J. Bryan McGeever, QLC1 @ Q995, Queens
(via Facebook)

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According to Frank Bruni in his column about Joel Klein’s new book [The New York Times, “Toward better teachers,” Oct. 29], Klein’s experience “gives him a vantage point on public education that we would be foolish to ignore.”

What Mr. Bruni fails to mention is that Joel Klein never taught! The same could be said of other “reformers” such as Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, governors Christie and Cuomo, Oprah Winfrey, and the editors of Time magazine. One could only wonder if the same people would feel free to give advice to the military on ways of improving its effectiveness?

We need teachers or those with actual classroom experience to speak up in order to bring a degree of reality to the “outsiders’ voices” whose views of teaching are based on data, ideology and political expediency, not experience.

Larry Hoffner, retired