How Stupid is the MTV Generation?

Proto-typcial bleeding heart outrage and a lack of math skills all at once

So This Evil Teenager Eventually Does the Right Thing...
... and kills himself in Cleveland yesterday after trying to kill teachers and other kids because he didn't get all the proper attention that the center of the universe should receive. However, what catches my attention is that like every story about schools in the US there has to be a sub-plot about how the school is failing all the children somehow. At the very least, there has to be some redirection of guilt away from an evil person to an evil society, somehow.

In this story, the NEA angle du jour is that overcrowding encouraged this latest calamity. The author of this story is intellectually dishonest to introduce this irrationality - given that this spoiled, well-funded charity, school's classroom size has absolutely nothing to do with an evil monster gunning down folks to feed his overgrown narcissism. In addition to intellectual dishonesty, the author obviously suffers from a lack intellectual faculties, period: the story's stated numbers indicate there are 250 students, 30 teachers and classroom sizes of 30. By my math that is about nine kids per teacher and three or four teachers hovering over this massive Hong Kong-like crowding of 30 kids in each classroom. I hate MTV.