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0 pointsmaxerickson10y ago0 comments

If I were a parent, my children would have access to the same quality of public education in a small rural town as they would in a rich area of Toronto.

Is this true in reality or just in principle? An area with more students can naturally better afford to offer programs that are of limited interest, because they will still have lots of students that are interested. An area with less students probably can't spend money on things that are only of interest to 1 or 2 students.

It's not true in either sense in the US, localized funding for schools is presented as the more fair solution.

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chongli10y ago

It's true in reality. We don't have localized funding for schools in Canada; we fund them province-wide. The small rural school gets the same funding per student as the big city school. The difference between the smallest schools and the biggest schools is not that much so rural kids have a longer bus ride to get to school. They don't have to sacrifice on programs.

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