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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Genuine question, how is this better for the public education system? Where is the extra 30% per student going to come from for private school students returning to public education? What about capex for facilities and other operational costs that come with having an influx of new students in the public system?
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I mean it's definitely not. You'll get a bunch of student's back into the public system when they can no longer afford the tuition. And it probably won't be the uber-rich ones. It'll probably be my friends who are struggling financially to send their kid with severe dyslexia to a private school. No way they can afford to pay another 6-8k per year for that, so he would have to go back to public school.
The government would pay the higher $/year amount, and he'd get shovevd in a regular classroom (or more likely a hallway because there is no more classroom space).
Maybe the money the government saves on the kids who stay private offsets the cost of the influx to the public system from an operating cost point of view, but it definitely doesn't magically build more schools.