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The 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.


This 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.


We already have that, it's called Title I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_and_Secondary_Educa...




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