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Originally Posted by moncton golden flames
So, because we can't get 100% of the money we need in one fell swoop, it's not worth getting back?
To steal and modify a quote from another poster (you&me)... we need to pick up dimes so they add up to dollars.
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The problem is, I don't think you're likely getting any dimes from that policy change, which makes it more like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'm pretty confident a huge percentage of kids would flow back to the public system in that situation, probably close to 70% of them. And the ones most likely to end up back in the public system are the most expensive kids, the ones whose parents are struggling to pay for private education because their kids have complex needs, autism, dyslexia, etc.
Even in that situation where you break even on the operating funding, you now have to find schools for tens of thousands of new kids and pay for those. On top of the huge number of schools we're already short.
I have a really close friend that has a kid with severe dyslexia that was basically ignored in public school. He's at a private school (and they are legit struggling to pay for it) and doing better but still not great. If his tuition goes up 8k per year back to the community school in gen pop he goes.