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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
So if a parent decides their kid is best served somewhere outside the normal system, whether by choice or necessity, how much less are their needs worth? What makes them less valuable?
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It's not about them being less valuable. It's about choices. The Calgary public school board has the GATE program for gifted students, Science schools, Arts schools, Aboriginal schools, language immersion schools, sports schools, Montessori schools, all-boy schools, all-girls schools. And that's just the public system. Then there are publicly-funded charter schools. The thing all those schools have in common is they don't turn away anyone based on ability to pay. They're universal. Private schools aren't. They're private and discretionary.