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Now, if it's true that the government spends a million dollars educating each child (and this was ten years ago, given inflation and the rising inefficiency of any force-monopolistic industry it could be two million by now) well, did anyone consider the more rational option of closing the schools and giving every child a million dollars? They could spend $5,000 of that on books and an internet connection, learn more than the school could ever possibly teach them and use the remaining $995,000 (or $1,995,000 if my second estimate is true) living their life in leisure.

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But this number is ludicrous. Do you have any sort of cite?

I'm not sure about Canada, but the average cost per pupil of K-12 public school in the US is about $8,000 per year. Or a little over $100,000 total to graduate a kid from high school. I can't imagine it is ten or twenty times as great in Canada.