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In canada, most places are not 'bad' areas, but just lower income or higher income. The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much

by novok 5y ago

In canada, most places are not 'bad' areas, but just lower income or higher income. The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much of a thing, almost a foreign concept.

matwood 5y ago
> The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much of a thing, almost a foreign concept. I assume Canada doesn't primarily use local property taxes to pay for schools. This whole better schools thing is in higher income areas is a self imposed problem in the US.
- DaedPsyker 5y ago
  Would that really solve it? If the funds for schools are raised from local property tax, then wealthier areas will still have the best funded schools will they not?
  - matwood 5y ago
    My sentence was confusing. The point was that school funding shouldn't come from local property taxes. This method in the US simply makes the divide between rich and poor even greater. And my badly made point was that this problem in the US is self imposed b/c of how schools are paid for.
jogjayr 5y ago
> The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much of a thing, almost a foreign concept Are you sure about that? A lot of real-estate listings I see here boast about having good schools.
- erosenbe0 5y ago
  Americans really take the cake when it comes to creating exclusive "close the door behind you" communities which advantage the already relatively wealthy kids to hog the next generation of opportunity. Just think Silicon Valley.
  - jogjayr 5y ago
    But I was asking about Canada.