• Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I wish we had school vouchers here. We somehow pay tons of cash per student and somehow have crap still falling apart.

    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Stop running so many redundant school bureaucracies for one thing. Why do the Catholics need their own publicly-funded school boards?

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        1 year ago

        Lol, how much money do you think we should give the Public School system? Is the nearing on $400k per classroom not enough? Would it magically get better at $500k? We’ve done nothing but throw money at this problem with zero results.

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          Finland is the best example of the path forward we should be taking. A place where private schools practically don’t exist.

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      “I wish the public would pay for my kid to go to private school”

      How about “No”.

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        I mean, one would argue that the money is for a child’s education… why do you care where it gets spent? We’re currently in Ontario spending north of $12,500/per year per child and somehow that’s underfunded. A class of 30 kids is getting $375,000/year. With that we hire 1 teacher and if we’re lucky 2 EA’s which would equal maybe $200k of that $375,000… so I guess we just accept having $175,000/year in overhead per classroom.

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          Then you should vote with your feet, and go to a private school that requires you to pay 100% out-of-pocket.

          The Parasite Class wants you to fight and argue in favour of school vouchers and private schools. It’s how they de-fund the entire system to force kids into religious indoctrination that promotes ignorance and bigotry. It’s the perfect Conservative Voter creation engine.