#238, Scaling School Enrollment Through Faculty Growth┃Dr. Damian Ahrens

Amen.

I mean, it's so funny you mentioned the hours thing.

I was just doing the math because I've always used the 16,000 hours as like the average of like, hey, this is how much your time, your student, your child is going to spend in school from kindergarten to 12th grade.

But then I started literally just a couple of days ago.

I was...

Wanted to like really dive into those numbers a little bit more because, you know, you hear from people all the time that talk about, you know, oh, it's really stressful being a parent, diving into all these things with their kids and all.

I'm like, you know, the grand scheme of things, you're not spending that much time with your kids in the grand scheme of things, which some people can take that as a good thing or a bad thing.

You know, it's like, it's not actually a ton.

And so I started really getting curious about the numbers.

And so I was like, you know what, if they go to daycare from six weeks old, you know, mom goes back to work, dad goes back to work, all that.

If you do the numbers and we're talking extracurricular activities, like the average, average family, uh, from zero to 18 from the math I did, I know this is just could very drastically between families, but we're talking daycare all the way through 12th grade.

Um, The family, the typical family is going to spend one year with their kid out of 18 total.

Now, granted, that's counting for that's not count is counting sleeping.

So it's not giving that to the parents.

That's not quality time.

Obviously, if they're sleeping in their bed and all that stuff, she's talking about parenting.

have one one year the majority of that time actually is the school the school has the majority of that time the the influence it's like where do you want that influence to come from do you want it to come from an institution that you're just going oh it was close by to me i'm just going to plop them in there and hope for the best or do you want to do it to these places that truly do take all their work seriously they're making sure their staff is trained professionally and they're really pouring in and caring and loving for your students like By golly, I really would hope that these families are picking the schools that are doing that, that are taking their training seriously, that are taking their investment seriously.

And obviously, you guys and I know all these other schools that are getting trained by Herzog Foundation are doing that.

They're trying to make themselves better, as we all should, of course.

But Herzog makes it pretty easy.

So I do love that you're taking it as seriously as you guys are.

Yeah, I'm excited.

By God's grace, I'm going to finish up the leadership development track here in the summer.

But what's really been great is I have a guy here that graduated in his junior year in high school.

He announced, I want to be head of school someday.