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Originally Posted by bizaro86
So basically the kids who are currently getting differentiated special needs education at Janus, Calgary Academy, and First Third should have their educations sacrificed for politicsl reasons?
Because there's no way the current system can support those kids, and even if you doubled funding tomorrow to cbe it would take time to improve access.
But you're right - taking away the 70% of total per-kid funding that middle class parents get for their autistic kids would piss off those parents, so that's a win. Too bad about those special needs kids that have to go under the bus but sacrifices have to be made right?
Alberta's per-child funding used to be the highest in Canada. We should go back to that, it would fix this.
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Not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying those kids should be properly funded and supported within the public system. That horse has left the barn so here we are. Now we get to figure out how to move forward, and in my opinion a properly funded public education system that supports ALL students is the way.
It's not about pissing anyone off, it's about getting people to recognize that if their priority is education, they should be advocating for it to their elected representatives who are in charge of the purse.