“We know we can help this kid, we know that — with the right tools — they can graduate high school. But the tools aren’t there. Our public education system isn’t on the verge of collapse. That already happened. We’re in a death spiral now.”

If that sounds alarmist, consider this: in Quebec, only 67 per cent of students in public school graduate high school within seven years. That number is 20 points higher in Ontario. At Quebec’s private schools, meanwhile, 93 per cent of kids graduate."

Of note: secondary school ("high school" in this essay's parlance) in Québec is 5 years, not 7.

https://rover.substack.com/p/the-segregation-of-quebecs-schools

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