Speaker shares vision for educational reform (Part 3)

Own self. And you're driving along the freeway or a beautiful drive and you're listening to a podcast. That's not a bad commute. But a kid and their siblings having an hour, 30 minutes each way. And think about if you have a 30 minute commute, that's an hour for the kid every day. Yeah. That's two hours for the parents. 10 hours a week, 40 hours a month, 480 hours a year. You're talking about like a month of life. Commuting in a horrible posture. Yeah. Not a fan. So, you know, we had that, we had the Finland study. We had a sick child and the school two minutes from my home that's been there for 25 years. The. The building went up for sale and it was going to be sold to a developer who's going to knock it down and build like four cookie cutter homes on it. I'm like, this is a sign. But at first we were just going to buy the building and lease it back to her. And then she met me and my wife. My wife Rachel. Since we are 19, we were already jamming on like curriculums and like, how would we teach our kids in the future? So we've been thinking about this for a long time and we were kind of frustrated about the schooling options and just like outsourcing. And if you drop your kids off at a school that you're not excited and proud of, and if your kids aren't as excited for Monday as they are for Saturday, it's hard for that family unit to be thriving if you're not stoked about where your kids are every day. Like, it's running in the back of your mind. You're like, my kids are in a little prison all day, sitting indoors for eight hours. And I don't feel good about this, is there something we could do about this? So we had a sick kid, we had that study in Finland. And I'm like, hey. And I learned because I'm from Canada. I moved to Austin four years ago and I found out because I heard about these things called truancy laws. So if you take your kid out of school for vacation for three weeks, like, you get in trouble. Yeah. Like you're not allowed to take your kids traveling. Huh. What's this all about? Well, turns out schools are funded based on attendance. That's right. So. Huh. This is interesting. Now you get an entry point here because I love. You know, it's hard. Like there's a lot of not for profits, doing good work. But when your message is like, please give me money for the good work, that vehicle doesn't have a great chance. But when you can align financial incentives with good things, that's when things can really get a lot of momentum. So I was like, okay, the public schools are financially motivated by attendance, but they have these incredibly sick buildings. So I said, what if we set out on a journey to create the healthiest school in America? So how does Kindling Academy work? So we have two Jaspers in every class. It's just our first year.