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Originally Posted by renthefinn
I hope you realize that most private schools are subsidized in Canada? 50-60% often, so I think that claiming no cost to Canada by going to private school is disingenuous at worst. You probably were not aware of the subsidy.
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Private schools in BC are eligible to receive 35% or 50% of the local district's per-student grant amount.
So if a public school spends $5,000 per student, private schools in the area can get $1,750 or $2,500 per student. Considering tuition fees at a school like St. George's are around $23,000 per year for BC residents, the subsidy isn't near the 50-60% subsidy you claim.
Considering that parents who send their children to private school are already paying into the public system through their property taxes, the grants make sense.
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To get this on topic, rich Chinese investors who are shelling out millions to buy homes people claim they don't even live in are paying tens of thousands of dollars annually each to support the public school system while not using it.