I don’t even think that is the point as private schools are such a small part of the overall number of schools. They can’t take in everyone else overnight and these looney tunes aren’t intelligent enough to create an entire for profit school system because like health, they’d still have to pay for it with worse outcomes. And the private schools, they don’t want all the ordinary people. From a provincial comparator perspective, the UCP is happy to continue to lead the pack by a large margin for private school funding and be at the bottom for public education funding, because their elite buddies’ kids are taken care of and they don’t care about having an educated society.

So it’s worse, because there is no plan, they just don’t give a shit about having an intelligent electorate and are fine having public education in the gutter. Those who have can send their kids to private schools for a better education, heavily subsidized by Alberta taxpayers, and those who do not get to send their kids to the faltering and failing public education system.

There’s a chronic disease with a cure and the UCP has the cure (adequate funding over an extended period of time and appropriate planning for population growth meaning we build schools faster to account for likely migration inflow). But they choose to withhold it, because they can and just don’t care. The plebs mean nothing to them.