“Private Schools are unfair because they charge tuition.” Why, yes—they must, because the government won’t fund them. If you defund independent schools and then attack them for needing tuition, it’s no different from a thief blaming his victim for her poverty.

“Private schools are exclusive.” Yet, wealthy neighbourhoods always have better schools. And in the most aggressive public districts of Canada, they take pride in having “magnet schools.” But they don’t pick students based on mission, like an arts or religious school; children are selected based on test scores—or perhaps their address.

“Private and charter school funding takes money away from public schools.” But every child who leaves the public system lowers costs—though not all their funding money follows them. Still, wherever any funding goes to independent schools, the sheikhs demand that it stops.

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