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Of course they have. Conservatives want people undereducated and gullible, preferably conditioned to acquiesce to authority, to better serve the conservative hierarchical system and the capitalists who are consolidating ownership of the property, system, and populace.
I strongly disagree. In fact if you look at who values education the most, its Conservative parents as they are, by far, the largest demographic who put their children in independent schools. Those schools still have to follow the provincial curriculum and have fully certified teachers, but the public system is ambivalent or openly hostile to conservative values and dont allow for specialties which is where independent schools come in. Its the parents who dont really care about education who leave their kids in public schools where standards are often lower and the parents are are less interested in educational outcomes.
Conservative parents are so committed they are willing to pay their full tax bill, PLUS pay for tuition on top, despite the average income being at or BELOW the provincial average - because they value solid education based on strong values, not the 'dumbed down' robots you're suggesting.
That's not valuing the education system, that's looking for an advantage. As in, "I got mine, fuck you."
On what premise do you base that statement? I interviewed hundreds of parents who were seeking to enroll their child and never ONCE did I get that attitude from them. They enroll because they care about their kids, because they are worried about the decline of standards in the public school system, because they like a particular program in the school... but never THAT. And they definitely value education.