Changes

Teachers unions constantly demand more taxpayer funding in order to reduce the size of public school classes.  Much of the additional funding ends up going to administrators and greater retirement pensions for teachers (which are already higher than most other professions).  Also, teachers unions are overwhelmingly  leftist organizations, and the mantra of "smaller class size" is just a way for them to push for more members and more political power.<ref>Public school teachers, many of whom homeschool because they really know what public schools are like, are so indoctrinated about the push for smaller class size that will insist on it for homeschooling classes.</ref>  But the effect of the push for smaller classes distorts education and causes students to lose the following advantages of large class size:

Teachers unions constantly demand more taxpayer funding in order to reduce the size of public school classes.  Much of the additional funding ends up going to administrators and greater retirement pensions for teachers (which are already higher than most other professions).  Also, teachers unions are overwhelmingly  leftist organizations, and the mantra of "smaller class size" is just a way for them to push for more members and more political power.<ref>Public school teachers, many of whom homeschool because they know what public schools are really like, are so indoctrinated about the push for smaller class size that will insist on it for homeschooling classes.</ref>  But the effect of the push for smaller classes distorts education and causes students to lose the following advantages of large class size:

* better competition with more students

* better competition with more students