Canadians starting to demand the privatized USA Health Care system.......

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78. You don't see it because you don't want to

or you haven't been taught to look for it, not sure which.

Here's the thing, when some rich famous dude sticks his kid in a private school, you think he gives a shit about the local public school? Nope (well, most don't).

Now stick that rich famous dude's kid into the local public school and suddenly he's in there like a dirty shirt trying to improve things for everyone (and that IS what usually happens). What private vs public does is create a 2-tier system where those who are well off and educated are able to afford better educations for their children, who are then able to become well off due to their superior education. The kids who are at public school, and who are now in a classes of kids with no college educated parents among them, aren't going to have the quality of schooling or the same opportunities as all the kids at the private schools (with their educated, involved parents). Remember the days where there were kids in your class whose parent did something special for a living? Imagine all the parents in your class work for min wage or are unemployed. It creates an atmosphere of despair.

And when you send your kid to private schoo, you think that money the school system isn't spending on your child is now put to good use? LOL! So naive. It's now being cut due to drops in enrollment, and the kids left behind suffer, and suffer greatly as their schools enter the decline spiral where those better off will always try to pull their kids out to a better school, and those left behind will always face a decline in funding. And it's not just funding. The parents who are well off and have more time and are more educated also tend to volunteer more than those parents who are working 3 min wage jobs and sleep 3 hours a night. Without the well off parents in schools and volunteering, the teachers back at the public school, now with less community resources, are struggling to do more work with less people.

It's a death spiral, these 2-tier systems. I refuse to have my country create one system for the rich and one for the poor when it comes to health and education - 2 of the biggest investments a country can make in their population.