Thing I just learned today: in the Catholic school board, teachers get 1 day off during the school year for personal leave (not sick leave). Beyond that, they need to pay out-of-pocket for their own substitute. So events like weddings, graduations, or family emergencies that don’t happen during vacation time become either impossible or have an additional expense for catholic school teachers.
This is in a province where the 18 most-expensive private schools (charging 12k - 35k / year) received $43 million dollars in public funds last year and $314 million in total public funding went to the 197 private schools in the province.
https://public-schools.ab.ca/wp-cont...in-Alberta.pdf