[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by photon

I remember them talking about the money following the kid, but I didn't know they'd already done that. That's cool.

So if the money follows the kid, why do we have the box to check at all then though? There's one pool of money with an allotment to each kid. Unless there's two pools, one public for all public schools, one Catholic for all Catholic and private schools? Shouldn't it say Public/Private then?

I should know more about this considering my kid is school age in a few years!

No, as I understand it, the money doesn't follow the kid, your money still goes to whichever you check in the tax box. So even though I don't have kids going there, my tax money goes to the Catholic board.

But I do believe that private schools are given funding on about the same level per student as the public system. Though as I said, I'm not entirely sure about this.