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> For instance, we believe there’s potential for a company to build a service that meaningfully connects schools and parents, and to charge parents for the serv
by ams6110 9y ago
> For instance, we believe there’s potential for a company to build a service that meaningfully connects schools and parents, and to charge parents for the service.
I disagree. I already pay taxes, book fees, technology fees, extracurricular fees to my school district. I would not pay another cent for anything I didn't have to pay.
A big problem in K-12 education today is actually over-involvement of parents. Helicoptering, or whatever you want to call it. Sure a teacher wants parent support -- but from home. They do not want to, do not have time for, and should not be dealing with 20 parent interactions a day, technology-assisted or not.
- jacquesm 9y agoThe bigger problem is that it would make it much harder for poor parents to keep up with the richer ones because they could not afford the service.
- jamestimmins 9y agoThis problem has a solution (albeit an imperfect one), which is charging wealthier schools more in order to charge more poor schools less. Obviously that model has drawbacks, but it may work better with a tech product than other areas, where marginal cost is relatively small.
- BadassFractal 9y agoWe already have that, it's called Title I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_and_Secondary_Education_Act#Title_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_and_Secondary_Educa...