Joe Liemandt
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Unless they do the time back.
And because of that, and because of the learning science and the app, they're going to make a commitment that when you look at their thousand school, there's a thousand school districts in Texas, 1200 or something.
They're like, our thousand schools, our thousand micro schools.
They're like, when you compare us, if you view us as an entire school district,
We will be seen as the best school district in Texas academically.
We will have by far the best academics.
Tens of thousands of kids will be in these micro schools.
And their hope is to launch a year from now when the Texas ESA vouchers come due.
And you can sit and see for parents who are like, wow.
That is an economic model I could get behind or an education model I can get behind where, oh my God, my kid's going to love school.
He's going to crush the academics and he's going to freaking do a sports that he loves afternoon.
And that's the middle school.
There's a whole set of parents who can then go build that out and entrepreneurs who can do that.
As we prove this out in scale, there's actually a lot of famous professional athletes who are like, I would love to start a school like that.
And so I believe that's just a whole huge opportunity.
There's another school that we've started, but it's one unit and we need entrepreneurs to scale it, is GT School, Gifted and Talented School.
And Gifted and Talented School, we define as you love academics for academic sake.
Like when you're motivated.
The five or 10%.
Yeah, it's the five or 10%.