Joe Liemandt

And that's because in the time-based model, the GT kids, right, only the super smart kids got 100.

In a mastery-based model, everybody can.

It's just a matter of effort.

It's not about IQ.

It's just about effort.

And as soon as you break that link for a kid, it changes everything about education, where they sit there and they're like, I can totally do this.

And so if you take the alpha stats, first of all, 90 plus percent of our kids who've been there at school a year are like, I can totally get 100 on a Texas star.

And the reason is because they have during the year.

Our building, our K-6 building down in Austin gets more hundreds on the Texas star than a school district of 100,000 kids.

Because it's just a different mentality and a mastery-based thing.

You don't advance until you know it.

And you sit there and back to motivation and how do you get it right.

If you make everything 100, everybody thinks it's too hard.

So you say you can pass it 90, but 100 for 100.

And everybody's like, okay, I'll do the extra work.

It's only a couple questions.

If they get less than 100, the AI tutor's like, here's the ones you missed.

Was it careless or did you not know it?

And if you didn't know it, want me to give you the lesson.

And so the kids can get to mastery.