Because Alberta diverts almost $300 MILLION per year FROM public education to subsidize elite private schools—to subsidize the rich—there is less funding to support your child. (See linked thread below.)
Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
https://twitter.com/risdonshawna/status/1574066520241901568
The diversion of tax money to from public education to subsidize the rich is why Alberta public schools have some of the highest school fees and highest bus fees in the country. 🧵👇
https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301268159165472768?s=21&t=QrRtXyFMQJzpuwynFP-cnQ
When funding was given out for covid supports, elite for-profit private schools like Webber Academy received hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in subsidies.
https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301240594056929280
What the practice of subsidizing the rich at the expense of the working class amounts to is state-sponsored segregated schools where the segregation is by wealth instead of by race. The practice is classist.
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https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1506498946436325383
Though it isn’t racist on paper practice of class-segregation still has racist undertones. Access to education has always been a great equalizer. Barriers—like tuition or school fees—are used to keep education inaccessible. They are tools of the oppressor. 
In 2020 Alberta received “more revenue from students (tuition: $1.35B) than oil/gas royalties ($1.2B).”
It would therefore cost about $1.35B/y to eliminate university tuition. Instead corporate revenue was cut, and education spending was slashed. Monetary barriers remain.
It would therefore cost about $1.35B/y to eliminate university tuition. Instead corporate revenue was cut, and education spending was slashed. Monetary barriers remain.
https://twitter.com/BertaAdvantage/status/1299372324911628289
To the oppressing class (represented by the Conservative party) public education is viewed as a threat. An educated population is more difficult to control than one that is conditioned to accept classist subsidies for elite for-profit schools.
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https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1365159253690830848
They fear education because they know that if the working class ever figured out how badly they were getting screwed over by the neoliberal policies that Conservatives love—tax cuts for the rich, service cuts for the poor—then they know they’d be in big trouble.
This is part of why the #UCP’s new curriculum is such a big deal. They need to ensure that the next generation of workers is taught to be as complicit as their parents in accepting oppression by Conservatives.
They want to maintain an “order” where they’re on top.
They want to maintain an “order” where they’re on top.
As an aside, this is also why wealthy Conservatives have bought up basically every newspaper and newsroom in the country.
To borrow from Marshall McLuhan:If they can control the medium, they can control the message.
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To borrow from Marshall McLuhan:If they can control the medium, they can control the message.
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https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1319523415649255427
To get back to our original question:“why can’t @RisdonShawna’s child get the support they need?”
it’s because the #UCP has cut revenue (remember their $4.3B corporate tax cut?) AND cut services so they van brag about a surplus.
Support was stolen.
globalnews.ca/news/9097483/a…
it’s because the #UCP has cut revenue (remember their $4.3B corporate tax cut?) AND cut services so they van brag about a surplus.
Support was stolen.
globalnews.ca/news/9097483/a…
Politics is about choices.
🏫Overcrowded classrooms are a choice.
🧑🏫Overworked teachers is a choice.
🚌Bus fees are a choice.
#abed #ableg
🏫Overcrowded classrooms are a choice.
🧑🏫Overworked teachers is a choice.
🚌Bus fees are a choice.
#abed #ableg
https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1571966289719205888
Firing 26,000 teachers aids, classroom support workers, and other educational staff was a choice.
Remember: private school funding was not cut. That was also a choice.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/province-s-sud…
Remember: private school funding was not cut. That was also a choice.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/province-s-sud…
Conservatives are not stupid. They know that the choices they make will mean the working class will suffer.
This is not an accident. It is by design.
Listen to what this Albertan has to say:
This is not an accident. It is by design.
Listen to what this Albertan has to say:
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