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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
I have a question. I was in the Catholic system, and as far as I know, my parents had to pay for me to go to a Catholic school. If I went to a public school, it would have been free. Why don't they just start charging parents X amount to send their kids to public school? Is it really too much to ask?
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No, it's not free, even for the public system. Parents pay a certain portion of their property taxes to the board their kids attend.
A common miscionception is that this is how education is funded in the province.
~95% of Education funding comes from the province, not the city.