One of my kids gets an inferior education

Re: Funding boost blasted as elitist, Oct. 6

How dare anybody tell me, especially a provincial government, which of my children is more important than the other. I have one child in public school and one in private school.

At my child’s private school, we just received additional funding from the provincial government; on the other hand, my child in public school is trying to understand why his school is slated to close and wondering where all his friends will go.

Can the minister of education please help me to explain to my children why the most expensive and wealthiest province in the country funds our public schools at among the lowest per-student rate in the country?

Can he explain why one child in a private school has great programs and small classes and the other, in public school, has 29 in his class, limited resources and, on top of that, the school is slated to close?

I implore parents to stop wasting their time and energy in attempts to save one school or another. Nothing is ever going to change if the funding model, established by our provincial government, is broken. If we used all this energy and time writing, phoning, knocking on the door of our education minister and MLAs then maybe, just maybe, something might change. Jesse Arnold, Richmond