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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Because it takes a lot of money to run a special needs school, and unfortunately DSEPs fall under this same broad category (and there's no reason to expect this completely unreasonable government to make any kind of reasonable distinction here).
Some degree of public funding legitimizes the oversight and regulation that independent schools must follow. Can you take away all of the funding and maintain the same degree of regulatory control? Maybe in theory, but I'm skeptical in practice. (not that this in itself is a particularly strong argument, but I think there is a can of worms here)
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Mostly for practical reasons. Private schools are educating nearly 50k kids in Alberta, and the government spends about $190MM less in operating grants than it would if those kids were all in public school, and doesn't provide the buildings or infrastructure for them either.
And there are plenty of needs the public boards do a generally poor job at meeting, and kids who would be significantly disadvantaged by that change. Take Janus aacademy - small class sizes and specialized educational supports for kids with autism.
I suppose we as a society could decide that instead of funding those kids at 70% of the funding every other child gets that they're worth $0 in funding. Of course, we can expect some of the parents won't be able to afford that anymore, and their kids will be back at CBE in a regular classroom. That'll cost the system an extra $4000 but at least those kids will get less specialized supports - I'm sure that won't have any negative downstream effects.
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You guys realize all of the special needs kids whose parents can’t afford private school still go to public school right?