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Originally Posted by cracher
School boards are a completely different issue and, hence, not a great comparison. Giving preference to Catholics in a publicly funded system is far beyond an administrative issue. It's straight up discriminatory. Without godless apostating up this thread as per OP's request, it's offensive to me to pay tax to fund something that ranks my atheist daughter as 2nd class.
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I can agree with this point actually. I believe that this is the main reason why the Catholic system can no longer force the issue. They are being funded by tax dollars and therefore, should not be able to discriminate in any way. I made the comparison to the AHS board because, like healthcare, education needs to be somewhat regionalized as different parts of the province face very different issues.
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Originally Posted by cracher
Edit: the more I think about this, the more mad I get. My taxes do go to the catholic board because I accepted 10k from my catholic parents towards my first downpayment in exchange for supporting the board. I will repay them tomorow to release me from the agreement.
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Just to be clear, nobody decides to funnel their tax dollars to one board or another. Every kid in the province gets funded a certain dollar amount, regardless of board (private and charter included). That little checkmark you fill in during the census just let's the government know that there is still a demand for the separate system. I would say you won that deal with your parents.
I don't have a problem with combining or sharing a lot of services in education and believe a lot of money could be saved in some areas. I just know that there are a lot of small Districts in this province that are achieving incredible things while the CBE continues to flounder. There is something to be said about the cost of running a massive District and how economies of scale seem to work in reverse at a certain size.