More taxpayer welfare for private schools. Private schools should be cut off public funding and pay taxes like any other business. Every country with two-tier education has shitty public schools for the working majority and expensive private schools for the rich and bigots.

Private schools in Alberta receive about 70% of the per-student funding public schools receive. Parents pay the rest through tuition. If those students were in the public system taxpayers would pay 100%. That means private school students actually cost taxpayers less, not more. Idiot.

@Loricatty @rankandfileca Resources go farther when pooled, rather than being split into smaller groups. 😉

@jo44527486 @rankandfileca That would make sense if private schools were fully publicly funded. They aren’t. In Alberta they receive about 70% of the per-student funding, while parents pay the rest-so taxpayers actually spend less on those students than if they were in the public system.

@Loricatty @rankandfileca Private schools are soaking up public money. If you want your children educated in a private school, pay for it yourself.

@jo44527486 @Loricatty @rankandfileca Public money is being spent to educate children to provincial standards. You have it backwards: school boards are soaking up public money from children who aren't being educated by those boards.

@_Andrew_Chu_ @jo44527486 @rankandfileca You’re ignoring the math. Private schools receive less funding per student than public schools. Families pay the rest. If those students moved into the public system tomorrow, taxpayers would pay more, not less.

@Loricatty @_Andrew_Chu_ @rankandfileca If those students moved into the public system, all students would receive a better education.

@jo44527486 @Loricatty @rankandfileca That's pretty presumptuous.

@_Andrew_Chu_ @Loricatty @rankandfileca AB has the lowest per student funding in the country. Our kids and their teachers need all the help they can get. But the UCP prefers to funnel money into private schools. It’s a disgrace.

@jo44527486 @_Andrew_Chu_ @rankandfileca No money is being taken from public schools. A private school student gets less funding than a public school student, so taxpayers actually save money when a student isn’t in the public system. Maybe YOU need to go back to school to learn a thing or two.

@Loricatty @_Andrew_Chu_ @rankandfileca Every tax dollar that goes into private school, is a dollar that should’ve gone towards the public school system.

@jo44527486 @Loricatty @rankandfileca That would be stealing dollars from every child that attends private school. Every child in Alberta (worldwide actually) has a universally recognized human right to publicly funded education that meets provincial standards.

@_Andrew_Chu_ @Loricatty @rankandfileca I don’t give a Fu%k about private schools losing provincial funding. The parents can make up the difference, or send their kids to public schools, like the rest of us!!

@jo44527486 @Loricatty @rankandfileca I think it's pretty clear that you don't care about the human rights of specific children and their parents.

@_Andrew_Chu_ @Loricatty @rankandfileca Everyone has the right to attend public schools. Private schools pick and choose who attend.