Soren Gawjewski:
The reality is the school is our best shot to correct or improve upon what's going on outside of the school. So, for instance, we can spend the resources necessary — in fact, we can spend a lot of dollars to make sure that every single child can read well when they come out of third grade, or we can spend more money on incarcerating those individuals because they were not able to utilize the curriculum, were not successful in school. And now we've got to pay for them to be in a prison, or we've got to pay to have social safety nets because they were not able to achieve what we wish they could achieve. So we pay for this either way. In fact, we pay more money for this when we allow students to leave third grade or grade 12 without a good education. So I don't like this, you know, let's do the bare minimum, you know, duct tape this thing together, and then be blamed that not every student is coming out with a wonderful — what do you wanna pay for? On the other end or at the beginning? And they're so much cuter at the beginning. Why aren't we supporting them to the max there? I don't know. My brain does not recognize that line of thinking. I don't get it. Can we be more efficient? Are there always opportunities for us to be more efficient in here or there? And sometimes efficiencies change over time based on your goals or technologies. We always should be conscientious of that. But our books — our financial books — are super public. Everything we do is public. I don't think you find that with businesses out there. It is all there for people to see. We do the absolute best that we can and we want to do better.