I don't think the answer is to pit public against charter and private schools. As someone said earlier, the real problem isn't affordability; it's adequate funding... we have the ####ing money, the UCP just chooses instead to flush it down the drain.
Alberta Ed has an annual operating budget of nearly $10B... The $300mm that goes toward private schools (38k students * $11,464 per student * .70) is a literal drop in the bucket.
Personally, I think that all students should be funded equally and that funding should follow the child to whatever school they / their parents choose, but that's surely not a popular opinion around here. But I can't help but shake my head at some comments made along the lines of "my taxes shouldn't support private schools", as-if conveniently forgetting that parents at private schools pay taxes too.
Adequately fund all students, pay the teachers what they deserve and the rest is just noise.
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