I am certain that the editorial writer could have found courses of a questionable nature at colleges and universities with religious affiliations. The article from the Providence Journal was intelligent, well-written and managed to convey a real position on the process of choosing a school. I do not take issue with anything it said, but it overlooked the salient point in the class size argument for school funding, which is always overlooked for obvious reasons. That point is this. Smaller class sizes mean more jobs for teachers.
More jobs mean more teachers union members.
More members mean more dues for the union and more support for the Democrat Party. This is the compelling argument. Any rational human being who looks objectively at the facts should readily figure out what is needed is not more teachers but better teachers, better administration with less peripheral jobs, better discipline, and a return to teaching reading, writing, arithmetic and sound history of the world and our country, with less emphasis on fads and indoctrination. To date, unfortunately, facts have had little place in this argument. He has also been ridiculed on various subjects such as the Internet, global warming, etc.