School Fees

I have always been the kind of guy who hates talking about money. I would love to do away with it and move on with life. The main issue I think that they were hinting or shedding some light on here was that both schools receive public funding yet one was much more well off than the other and it had much more privileges than the other. Maybe it was saying that there should be government funding of private school. Not buying it. So the education system is funded from the government ok and that’s all well to do but where does the money that goes to the government come from. As the very famous Oscar Leroy once said to the taxman “I pay your salary.” And as is the nature of Taxes usually you pay more the more money you make and federal taxes are as such. But what I just looked up and did not know is that it is the same for all Albertans not measuring your income. Still though if you use the two salaries as shown in the video the family that makes 40,000 dollars would pay roughly 4000 dollars and the family that makes 200,000 pays 20,000. They make more money yet pay more takes and are taxed at the same rate. So in a sense they are not only paying more money tax wise for their child’s education not even taking into account that they pay extra tuition on top of that they are paying 5 times as much and say half of that goes to their child’s school they are still paying double for the other child’s school. I don’t know but I guess I just have this sort of who cares attitude and I’m not really sure why. There will always be rich and there will always be poor but in my experience the rich are rich for reasons and the poor are poor for other reasons it is not that one is taking advantage of the other here, although if it were it would seem that the poor are taking advantage of the rich, say what? But there are many other circumstances that need to be observed other than simply how much money you make. I have lived on both sides of the coin I think growing up I went to public school in our town my parents never made enough to send me to a private school but when we moved to Nigeria as missionary kids we went to a private school. Mind you in Nigeria as a child if you got to go to school in general you were pretty privileged for many children didn’t and if they did it was till grade seven maybe nine. Maybe this will sound ridiculous but in comparison it cost my parents 5770 dollars per semester to send me there where as our top paid house help was 8000 naira (80 dollars) a month and she could send her children to another private school. There is much more to be said maybe as we go on I will follow up on this.