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Originally Posted by you&me
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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The reason we have public ed is for public benefit. Having private ed takes high quality students out of public Ed. Having well resourced parents and students in schools raises all boats. It also creates more support for the public system when people with more access to power are involved in the system.
The public does not benefit from a person going off into the public system. It actively harms the public system. So why should the public pay for a system that makes the public system worse?