(I document this in my book Maximum Canada: http://www.dougsaunders.net/about/maximum-canada/ … )
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(Technically 22 years ago -- the legislation itself was 1997 --but it wasn't til the end of the '90s that it really got going)
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And that's a good thing? Having strangers raise your kids? Here's a novel idea: raise your own kids. Ever thought that might be a good idea, Doug? Folks that live in rural ares raise their own kids. And most urban folks do too. Toughest job in this world is raising kids. By far!
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Homeschooled kids have terrible social and developmental outcomes and often fare terribly in the real world. Being held hostage by your family and isolated from human community is not good for success
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This is solidly documented in the literature: Homeschooled are "three times more likely to report being behind their expected grade level and two and a half times more likely to report no extracurricular activities in the prior year than their traditionally schooled counterparts"
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That's from the National Institute of Health, "Homeschooled adolescents in the United States: developmental outcomes." You find similar results across the literature -- as long as that literature doesn't draw on self-selected proponents. (In other words, is actual scholarship).
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(And I should note that most of the people responding to that remark appear not to have been taught that n=1 is not a useful sample size. That, along with their Twitter bios, speaks volumes for this form of education)
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That’s “research” by a homeschooling advocacy group. Of course it finds that school withdrawal is good, much as anti-vaxer groups produce “research” suggesting that non-vaccination of children is something other than harmful to the entire population
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Not lavish is an odd description. I know a couple, one a Concordia prof, the other McGill prof, making high incomes, paying $7/day for childcare. Seems to me the program should be geared to income. I thought I'd heard the program was stretching govt coffers.
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The program is now tied to income. Your friends are paying thousands of dollars in extra taxes in April. The new government pledged to make it universal again but there’s no timeline.
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It amounts to about $22 a day instead of $8.25. Still vastly more affordable than most other places in Canada. But having lived it with 2 let me just say the extra $6000 at tax time is a heck of a shock and cost the Liberals dearly politically in the last election.)
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Useful information, Les. Note that parents pay an average of $14,700 per child per year for childcare in Vancouver, $16,800 in St John’s, and $20,832 in Toronto
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I don’t know how anyone does it. We are in the top bracket and it cost just over $10,000 for two.
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I can't remember how much we spent... We were partly saved because most of it (after our oldest turned 3) was in UK, where we took advantage of primary schools that begin classes on the kid's third birthday -- ie de facto child care, offered in a school by real teachers.
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“Real teachers” is exactly what my kids’ childcare providers were from 1-4YO. That said, the year we had one in toddler room and one in infant room, it cost us $34K. I.e. everything we had.
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They also have amazing parental leaves so that when both moms and dads take time off- they get extra time off together- and this one fairly recent change drastically increased father participation in raising children and doing housework
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What I’d like to see is the Nordic policy of mandating all men to take several months of paternal leave, exactly the same amount as women — thus eliminating any incentive for employers to hire young men rather than young women
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