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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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Dude you’ve lost the plot here. No one’s(or at least I’m not) suggesting taking away parents’ right to provide better educational options for their kids if they can afford it. In the case of private education though it is taking funding from the public system that would help significantly more kids with special needs. If hypothetically there were say 1000 special needs students in private education versus 20k in the public system, the money taken out of private school funding overall(from both the parents of kids with special needs and without) would provide an influx into the public system that would benefit way more kids who have no other options.
Maybe the parents of half of those special needs kids in private school wouldn’t be able to afford the private option anymore but the public option would be improved. The influx would be more than enough money to fund specials needs specific schools that all of those parents wouldn’t have to pay out of pocket for. You’re a good dude(your opinion on unions aside
) and I know this isn’t your intention but I really feel that the special needs students argument is exploiting the struggles kids with special needs and their parent face to defend funding(subsidizing) private schools for the parents of kids without special needs and/or to pump up the profits for private schools.