This article was originally posted on Ricochet.
Private schools do not need public funding. That could easily have been the title of the Fraser Institute’s recent report on private schools across Canada.
The data throughout the report certainly supports that conclusion, though of course it is never stated. Instead, the report, titled A Diverse Landscape: Independent Schools in Canada, reads like a marketing piece for private schools and is focused on dispelling a straw man argument that private schools are only for the “urban elite.”
The report finds that nearly half of private schools are religious in nature and that many others are “specialty schools” with a particular curriculum focus, such as arts or athletics." Read the full article on Ricochet's website.
