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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Primary and secondary education are a basic public service that all jurisdictions provide. Post-secondary is an option that not all jurisdictions treat equally.
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Yes, I understand that, and I agree with your basic premise.
What I'm asking is more of an out-of-the-box question: why have various jurisdictions decided that primary and secondary education are a basic public services that should be provided to all citizens by the government but post-secondary education is not? You outlined some reasoning why you don't believe post-secondary eduction should be fully subsidized by taxpayers, but all of your reasons are equally applicable to elementary or high school students as well.
I'm just wondering why we (the collective "we" of society) have decided to draw the line of where we stop fully paying for the education of our citizens at the high school level. It seems sort of arbitrary if you really think about it.