The New York City Public School system is not Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private plantation. It is obscene that any single man whether White, Black, Yellow or Green would feel that he has the right to announce sweeping, monumental changes in NYC public schools without first consulting parents of children, teachers, educational groups, elected representatives, community representatives, religious leaders and even children themselves. This is the kind of crude, contemptuous and disrespectful conduct that can only be expected of an arrogant, multi-billionaire whose success has been based on being a dictator.

I know.  I know.  The prophetic title of this piece is NOT what many of you want to read first thing on a Monday - nor, I imagine, on any other given day of the week.

But, I am here to speak truths, and this is one of them:  The Harlem Success Academy, a new charter school led by former Upper East Side Council Member Eva Moskowitz, is bound to produce extraordinary results.

And I make this prediction with great confidence, not because I have so much faith in Eva (we'll save that story for a rainy day), but because I sense that the brains and money behind this operation, Joel Greenblatt (not Klein), is on to something big.