2. I, my brother, & my many cousins (chain migration) all grew up in households where English wasn't spoken. Yet thanks to Canadian public school education we all ended up in colleges & universities, the first generation in our family to do so.
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3. For my family, public schools offered a real pathway to mobility. Are the schools perfect? No -- there's real inequality in resources, particularly against Native students.
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4. Still, if the public schools system is to be criticized it should be from someone invested in the system, unlike
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5. One of the implicit assumptions here is private school education doesn't engage in propaganda or social engineering -- which is kind of absurd if you think about it for one minute: https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/961664599626981376 …
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6. I mean Kay's own education was at an private anglo all-boys school in Quebec where he managed not to learn French despite living in a French speaking society. That's several layers of social engineering right there.
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The Trump children are a walking advertisement against private school.
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So is Trump himself...
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But how has that education changed in recent years?
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My eldest daughter goes to public school & I plan to send the todlers to the public school. it's still excellent.
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I went to private school and am gainfully employed. No correlation. I send my kids to public school.
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