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Originally Posted by GGG
So the kids these schools are getting are lower cost higher performing students so the “benefit” you are stating might not exist. Also by removing above average students (on a statistical basis) you hurt the student body as a whole.
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But are all above average students being taken away and put into the private system? What about special needs kids that get taken out of the public stream and put into specialized schools? They exist, too. So while I could buy the argument that some lower cost/higher performing kids will enter the private stream, so will some higher cost/lower performing kids.
In 2021/2022, the total
school population in Alberta was 744,809. Of those students, 39,194 were in private schooling (not including Charter, or other specialized schools for simplicity). So you've removed 5.26% of the student population and put them into private schools. Now, I have no clue what proportion of private schooling is for special needs kids versus religious versus other, but that's 5.26% of the overall student population. I'm no expert, but that doesn't seem like a massive exodus of the best and brightest the province has to offer.