Joe Liemandt

Earn the alphas.

Other ones, okay, they do good life skill workshops and they have a bigger picture.

We'll do another one.

This is what every parent should do.

Because this is super controversial.

Everybody hates it.

And if you care about academics, this is the single best thing you can do to fix academics.

So the number one issue in academics for kids, and let's start at middle school, is the reason they're struggling.

And if you look at the curves in learning in America, they all start to flatten out in middle school.

The median person in high school in America actually doesn't learn anything.

Scary.

In a MAPS test, which is a 300-point scale, the median American goes up one point in four years.

One point on a 300 point scale, not learning anything.

It starts slowing down in middle school.

And motivation, engagement's an issue.

The other is just, it's the ramification of having a time-based education system instead of a mastery-based education system.

And Saul Kahn in Kahn Video, he has great videos on this, where he's just like, when you're pushing people up and they've only learned 70 or 80% of the curriculum, you should think it's like Swiss cheese.

It's like you're building a foundation with all these holes.

And then eventually, as you get high enough, it just gets too much and it collapses and you can't learn anymore.

And that's what happens when kids hit algebra.