[CliffFletcher]

I used to be strongly opposed to public funding for private schools. But in recent years I know two families who are sending a child each (not all their kids) to Rundle Academy because they were struggling with learning disabilities and were willing to pay for the much smaller class sizes. One family is affluent, the other not.

While I’m still wary of Canada following the U.S. and UK down the road of private education hardening class divides into the elite and everybody else, I do think it’s more complicated than that. I don’t know that charging full freight for private education will make it any less elitist, or send many highly-ambitious, high-achiever families back to the public system.