Chase Koch: preference

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…You founded a school that is located on the grounds of Wichita State. Do I understand that properly? Yes. I would say my ex-wife founded that. I can’t remember exactly what year it was, but it’s a school called Wonder. My kids still go there today. It’s really this principle that we really support across Stand Together. That’s this idea of where education is going, and what’s helping kids the most is not a one-size-fits-all approach, the teach-to-test model that Tyler, you, and I probably grew up in, with the teacher at the front of the classroom talking at kids. This is more of a model, and I think where most of education is going, project-based learning. The kids have agency. The kids are the customer, not the teacher. It’s more of a guided system where each kid has a different gift. You help guide them and find their gift earlier in life than they otherwise would. They’re leveraging things like Claude Code. My son can run circles around me with Claude Code or what he’s building, but it’s because he has the freedom at school to try these different things on his own. No one’s telling him what to do. He and his friends are getting together and saying, “Hey, we can go build stuff. We can build video games. We can build apps.” What I’m most excited about what we’re working on with Stand Together is around education. We are in the middle of one of the biggest movements as a country, I think, that we’ve ever seen. If you look pre-COVID at the research, and Stand Together has done all this research, only 20 percent of families were open to their kids going to a nontraditional school. If you look at over the last year, we’ve measured that same question, and it’s north of 70 percent, I think closer to 80 percent. In terms of the biggest opportunity for what we can do to transform education, it’s shifting from that one-size-fits-all approach to one where it’s individualized education. As you know better than anyone, we now have the technology to do it. Alpha School is a great example of that. Khan Academy is a great example of that. We have a VELA Fund concept where, with the Walton family, where we’re writing very fast checks to any parent, any teacher, any entrepreneur that wants to transform education so they can go build it. With that model, we’ve built over 5,000 schools over the last five years. If you were to explain to an outsider, in terms of fundamentals, how is Kansas different from Nebraska, how would you put it?…

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