I saw a brief story on the news this evening about expected widespread teacher shortages during the coming school year. And then it struck me: whereas I grew up attending classes with about 30 kids in each, these days my youngest kids have only about 20 classmates.

Combine the population growth over the past 30 years with the incessant drumbeat of "smaller class sizes, smaller class sizes" from those who can benefit most by expanding the perceived need for more teachers, I guess I can't be surprised that we're going to experience a teacher shortage.

How about we make the class sizes a bit bigger and save some tax money by cutting some of the deadwood haunting the halls of our children's schools?