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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I agree public education should be better funded and voted with that in mind.
But my friends of moderate income have a severely dyslexic kid. He was basically not learning anything in public school, and they're struggling to send him to a specialized private option. I don't blame his public school teacher, who had too many kids and wasn't specialized for his needs. He doesn't need a 10 or 20% boost to funding so the teacher had 25 kids instead of 30, he needs a smaller class with specialized teaching. CBE isn't 1 or 2 years away from being able to offer him that even if they got the money - they'd need to build more buildings to have a chance which takes years.
So in the meantime what happens to him? His parents can't afford another $7k. He won't learn to read in public school. Is that a sacrifice you're willing to make to try and get his parents to vote a certain way? (His dad for sure voted NDP last time anyway...) That seems pretty punitive to a kid who didn't do anything wrong - he was born with dyslexia.
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If you're going to go with an angle of being punitive to kids who can't help what they were born with, I'm going to guess there's a far greater amount of kids who can't help what they were born with in the public system. But you're asking us to have empathy for a family that has the means to address this education challenge with their child? Rather than having empathy for ALL children/teachers within the public system who do and do not have education challenges.
Well we're saying we want to be able to help ALL childrean with education/language/etc. problems within the PUBLIC system. So if that means we tell all private schools you have to find your own funding now (even if it only makes up a 6.2% gain in funding), I'm fine with that.
Yes, it may be misguided, but this is kind of a we will take whatever we can get situation at this point, due to the years of mismanagement.