Joe Liemandt

And the kids learn, oh, okay, I should actually not cram if I really want to learn this, which goes back to retention and learning faster.

You can teach kids to be these self-driven learners where they learn these concepts and actually are excited to learn two, five, 10 times faster.

Kids want to learn as quickly as they can.

Well, our academic results are just crazy based on standardized tests.

So there's two parts.

The first is our kids literally spend two hours a day and that's it.

Instead of sitting in class for six and homework, the amount of time they need to spend is so much less than what we spend or what parents expect.

The data you need is the average kid at Alpha, if you're a year behind in a subject for whatever reason, to a parent, you're like, oh my God, that's terrible.

Well, your kid's only 20 to 30 hours behind.

You can teach an entire grade level of material for one subject in about 20 to 30 hours.

And you're just like, wait, there's 180 school days.

Each class is an hour and it's 180 hours plus homework.

And you're telling me it's 20 to 30 hours.

And you're like, yeah, five to 10 times faster.

Over and over our AP kids, like they'll do AP world history where our kids all got fives because tests came back a couple weeks ago.

They all get fives and they spend 75 hours max to do AP.

So this whole, oh, there's a big AP loads, you know, in high school where it's hundreds of hours.

You're like, oh, wow, it just doesn't take that long.

And so this whole concept of we need to have kids spend six hours a day plus homework for 12 years, it's not even close to true in this new world.

And then the second part is, okay, they're only doing it two hours.