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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
The whole public-partially-funding-private argument seems to be a bit of a scapegoat bogeyman.
I think having equivocal private/public per student funding is reasonable. Its not as though the parents of private students aren't paying taxes, in fact based on demographic, they are paying more taxes per household. Is it unfair if some of their taxes are equally allocated to their own child's education?
It's no secret that having a parallel private system decants the strain on limited public ressources. Further to the latter, I'd wager that the required increase in private school fees ensuing from subtracting all public subsidization, would force a majority of private students back into public schools as the increased cost crossess a major threshold (an increase of >12k$ after tax income is still alot for most in the top 25th percentile). Suddenly dumping 20000+ students back into the public system would be a huge logistical problem on top of the prexisting over crowding etc. Would this increased public cost really offset much of the savings? How much surplus are you actually adding back into the buget if you just converted the private subsidy into public school cost? And if there are any meaningful savings, would those actually be passed on to fund the public system? With this government you might just end up back at the status quo.
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I don't think it would flood the public system that much, I would still pick up the incremental tab of the $0.14 than put my kid back in public. It's negligible dollars.