Maybe no school board buys and puts it into every class. Parents will still buy it and it can supplement learning gaps when doing homework. $20/month is a rounding error compared to pre-school, clothes, extra-curricular activies, private school, private tutors, etc.
The kids of people who can afford all you mentioned usually don't have problems with education. It's those who don't have $20.
My parents spent almost nothing on my education, just a couple of $ per year to buy a notebook or two. I used the same pens for almost ten years. I participated in zero sports, had zero tutors... I did ok but I had peers with even less resources and not all of them did good.
Fond memories of being mocked for wearing the same clothes I wore the previous year or two. Wait no, not fond.
The clothes were fine: good condition, clean, etc. Just old from the perspective of kids who didn't understand they came from money or that their parents were bad with money and headed toward disaster.
/u/raisedbyninjas was hopefully kinder than those kids even though it sounds like they were in the same cohort by how small $20/month sounds to them.
Given that Sal has never turned Khan Academy into a commercial product -- despite its resounding success and popularity, and the large amount of $$$ he could have made -- has proven he's not in this for the money. So I expect the AI version to also be free or at least have a free version for parents (and schools who can't afford it).
> The kids of people who can afford all you mentioned usually don't have problems with education.
Elite parents (read: the ones with discretionary money for schooling) do not see education in this way. They see it as an endless arms race to optimize every possible advantage they can for their child. From the moment the child was born, everything about their life was structured to optimize future earnings, which requires admission to an elite school, which requires exceptional learning tools.
The very people you are talking about that "don't have problems" are spending money and effort to get their kids to do even better, get into better schools etc. It's not some binary fine/not fine thing. They view it extremely differently to how you appear to be viewing it.
They won’t actively cut teachers, they just won’t hire as many specialists. We have a couple math specialists who just do remedial math. Kids who are at grade level or above get zero attention during math time. This will be a cheap way to provide attention to those kids, at a fraction of the cost of hiring more math specialists or classroom teachers.
