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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't know if that's a given at all. Obviously everyone's situation is different, but BC has the biggest share of students in private/independent schools in the country (a rate 3x that of Alberta), but the funding here is a fair bit lower than Alberta.
There are different levels of funding depending on the school (ranging from 0% to 50%), but the latest data I've seen shows the weighted average funding level for private schools in BC being only about 40% of what public schools receive per student.
So if BC can have 3x as many private school students while providing barely over 1/2 the funding per student that Alberta does, then I don't think reduced government funding would necessarily push the majority of private school students back into the public system.
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Median net worth in BC is 69% higher than it is AB - the combination of their housing market being bonkers for a generation and huge numbers of wealthy immigrants means that the % of people with significant wealth is much higher in BC than AB. And the really rich are the ones you keep, the upper middle class kids are the ones who come back to the public system.
Will the super-rich keep their kids in private school if it goes from 40k to 50k. Probably.
Will the upper middle class family struggling to send the learning disabled kid to specialized school still be able to if it goes from 20k to 30k? Less likely.