Parents in Arizona, Florida, and Arkansas are increasingly skipping free public school to spend $8-13k per child on customized learning instead. Florida's part-time school market, where students mix public education with other services, is now worth a billion dollars.
And so we see a level of entrepreneurship, a choice and I would argue now a family increasingly, if you're in Arizona, Florida, Arkansas, wherever, it's not just like the free public school or I pay money, it's like, oh, if I just default to the free public school, I'm actually foregoing 8 to 12, $13,000 that I could be spending on my kids education in the way that's customized for what they need and what they have shown interest in, et cetera, et cetera. That's like a very different decision set now where all of a sudden like it's actually expensive to default to the free.
Well, and to your point, it might take a little bit of time, but it really changes people's, you know, mindsets around everything. Yeah. And I was
shocked. I, I have to look deeper into this, but Ron Mattis at Step up for Students in Florida sent me this report. They did. He said the number of learners in Florida who are now doing la carte learning, so they don't have a primary school five days a week, It's a billion dollar market is going through.
