Nonsense!
When I went to school there were 30 to 35 kids in each class.
Despite this handicap, I attended Colgate Univ for undergrad and Univ of Michigan for graduate school.
The current class room size of 22 kids per class does not lead to better education but it does provide employements to more teachers.
Let's see 4 classes of 22 could be 3 classes fo 30.
Bingo, 25% less teachers are needed - end of budget problems.
Let's try that first then going back to the old standby MORE TAXES for every public employee looking to retire on 90% of their last salary while most private sector employees have seen their 401Ks devastated.
This scam has got to stop.
The residents and taxpayers should be in charge, the residents and taxpayers should decide how much they want to spend not the emnployees.

Joe,
Let's start with your kids as a matter of fact your kids can be at the back of the classroom and they can wait for an answer until they forgot what they asked. I'll check back later when your property value is less than your mortgage by a couple 100K. This is the reason they have professionals and not the taxpayers in charge. By the way teachers can not retire at 90% they max out at 66%, most retire at 61.5 years old after 32 years of service. If you want someone to be mad at be mad at Shearson Lehman or Bernie Madoff.

Joe above must have had a good seat.
He went to a couple of mediocre low ranked universities.
If one lives in Silicon Valley area in one of the cities the Almanac serves, NO education is necessary to become a multimillionaire.
Crime and corruption do not require diplomas.

R.Gordon - Not to be too ornery, but might you tell us where you went to school?

I disagree about University of Michigan graduate school. I have no opinion about Colgate.

I went to Penn State and CMU.

Class sizes need to be kept small. The world is much different for people that graduated from college years ago!!