Unlearn16: Class is in Session - June 04, 2024


The One Where We Save Metro Prep

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The One Where I Went Over The Falls To Build a School The One Where Ryan and I Find The Authentic Metro

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00:00:00.000 class is in session hey everybody and welcome to unlearn 16 you know the answer classes in session
00:00:10.000 today you just get me just little old me and little old me and saving metro prep now i'm gonna
00:00:21.920 do a little backstory for everybody to understand what's going on what we've gone through and where
00:00:27.920 we are right now in order to catch all of you guys up if you haven't been paying attention.
00:00:32.880 If you haven't been paying attention, where have you been at? I don't understand. I've
00:00:36.660 done TikToks. I've done podcasts. I don't understand. Okay, so I'm going to give you
00:00:41.600 the synopsis, the overview. I'm going to tell you where we are. I'm going to tell you where
00:00:48.620 you can help. I'm going to tell you where we're going to go. Are you ready? Here we
00:00:54.760 go. So the story starts, well, I've been at Metro Prep Academy going on 22 years. So technically
00:01:03.680 the story starts 22 years ago. I sit down with Wayne McKelvey. He interviews me. We fight for
00:01:10.060 an hour about unions and I leave his office thinking I'm never going to hear from him again.
00:01:15.360 And what do I do? I get hired and I've been working there for 22 years fighting with him
00:01:19.460 pretty much every single day. This year, in the last few years, Metro has gone through a lot.
00:01:28.560 So we were renovated from where we were at. We were forced to move very, very quickly.
00:01:34.020 We managed to get a place. That was a whole thing in and of itself. I remember looking at Wayne
00:01:38.500 going, do you want to do this or do you want to be done? Like, do you want to be done here? Like,
00:01:42.200 it is what it is. Maybe it's time to retire. Maybe it's time to be done. We can't find a
00:01:46.780 new building. He looked at me and said, I'm not done. So with Ryan and me and his sister and Sue,
00:01:54.780 and we found another place and we found this other place. And within two months,
00:01:58.660 we got this place. And I don't know how I did those balloons. That's ridiculous. And within,
00:02:05.900 for those who are just listening, balloons just went up the entire video. I have no idea.
00:02:10.340 Although I guess it was well-timed. Within two months, we found a new location. And as we found a new location, we moved in and we renovated this entire, it was going to be 25,000 square feet.
00:02:26.720 We renovated the entire building in two months, decorated it, had it ready to go for September.
00:02:34.440 Kids walked in, we saved it, new building, we have X amount of students, we go into the first
00:02:41.120 semester, and we round the corner, and what hits us? COVID, right in the kissa. So we shut down.
00:02:49.700 And we shut down and we go online. Now, that's not really the hardest part, because we handled
00:02:55.240 the online actually fairly well. The hard part was we had a pretty significant student population
00:03:03.100 that came from outside of Canada. So we had these international students that as soon as COVID
00:03:07.960 happened, the following year couldn't get visas to come back in. Everybody was terrified.
00:03:14.900 Everything shut down. So we went down from about 200 kids to about, well, just under that,
00:03:24.140 to about 60. Now, when we went down to 60, you got to know, we didn't, I mean, 60 students in
00:03:32.360 this brand new renovated building was not enough to pay the bills. We never, Wayne never fired a
00:03:39.120 teacher. He never cut back anybody's salary. What did this man do? Well, he figured out ways for him
00:03:47.700 to cover the loss. And as the years progressed, you guys know coming out of COVID was hard. A lot
00:03:53.980 of people didn't have money. A lot of people couldn't send their kids to private. There's
00:03:56.760 lots of things. And we were gradually ratcheting it up, but not very quickly, you know? And we
00:04:06.320 maybe weren't expanding marketing department the way we should have been. And we knew we were
00:04:12.640 doing a beautiful thing and we were supported by this beautiful guy and a vision, but a vision
00:04:19.760 that wasn't coming to fruition because without the students, we can't implement the vision.
00:04:23.980 and that went on for about, well, until this year, and this year, and over the last few years,
00:04:30.720 actually, Wayne's health started to deteriorate, he had a stroke, he came back, he had diabetes,
00:04:37.600 he, you know, got healthy, you know, and he went up and down, but, you know, my mom is a bit younger
00:04:45.040 than him, that's what happens, you go up and down, you get something, you fight it, you come back,
00:04:50.360 And then this year, he got sick, but once again, ended up in the hospital.
00:04:57.620 But I thought, he goes in, he gets better, he comes out.
00:05:02.580 And I went and sat with him after I found out that he had cancer.
00:05:09.260 And I went one night, and I sat with him for about an hour, and he was just waiting, laughing and joking
00:05:17.640 and, you know, talking about who the best students were,
00:05:23.520 who's causing trouble, asking for the gossip,
00:05:26.820 joking about politics, you know.
00:05:29.880 It was just Wayne telling me to wash my tattoos off.
00:05:35.560 And throughout that hour, I thought, that's it.
00:05:39.580 He's going to be fine.
00:05:41.200 All this talk, he can beat cancer, he beats everything.
00:05:45.760 And we were leaving, and I was there with a co-worker of mine.
00:05:48.320 He looked at us and said, what are you guys doing after this?
00:05:50.360 And I said, Wayne, it's almost 9 o'clock.
00:05:51.680 We're going home to bed.
00:05:53.220 And he goes, no, no, no.
00:05:55.120 You guys, you guys, I want you to go out.
00:05:58.360 We have dinner.
00:05:59.400 And I want you to go dancing.
00:06:02.120 I looked at him.
00:06:02.900 I go, Dwayne, I haven't been dancing in 15 years.
00:06:07.240 What are you talking about?
00:06:08.840 And he's like, you go out.
00:06:10.780 You go out and have a good time.
00:06:12.380 And when I left, even though he was in great spirits and he seemed okay and healthy, I felt in that moment that was his way of A, saying goodbye, and B, saying, don't you dare waste it.
00:06:31.440 So I walked out.
00:06:32.520 We walked out, you know, still thought there'd be a comeback special going on here.
00:06:39.760 We walked out, and about a week later, he passed.
00:06:47.020 He just, I think his body and his mind had equally called it a day.
00:06:55.040 And so we were met with this in just during March break.
00:07:03.080 and we were, you know, devastated. And we came back and I thought, and a lot of the kids were
00:07:15.160 very nervous about what is the school, what's going to happen to the school. And I thought,
00:07:19.940 listen, we'll rally, we'll rally. People will take up different monikers. I will not let
00:07:25.500 this school, go anywhere, all of these kinds of things. And then within about a month,
00:07:34.680 so what does that put us in? April? The end of April? Not even the end of April. I'm trying
00:07:41.780 to remember the dates here. We were told that the school was going to close, that the economic
00:07:49.700 weight of COVID and everything that Wayne had tried to do to support it was too much to bear
00:07:55.840 and it couldn't be shouldered. And that was it. We were given termination letters. We were told
00:08:02.960 it was going to close. It went up on the website, like instantaneously. And I remember Ryan and I
00:08:09.340 looking at each other going, no, you know, no, the answer is no, it's not going to close.
00:08:19.060 So we instantaneously and kind of fortuitous, like serendipitously made some connections
00:08:27.240 with different individuals. One individual who had been an agent at our school who I very much
00:08:33.380 connected to. We connected with him and tried to brainstorm ideas of how to save Metro. What was
00:08:41.260 that going to look like? Could we save it in that space? Do we have to move? Can we get investors?
00:08:46.960 What can we possibly do? And we sat there for three hours and tried to come up with all of
00:08:51.420 these ideas. And any idea was welcome. And as we sat there, he said, I think I might have an
00:08:59.640 investor. They have a building. They can do this, this, and this. Maybe they'll be interested. How
00:09:04.540 about we invite them to Metro, talk to you and Ryan, see what they think. And they came down and
00:09:10.420 you know, we talked to them. Lovely, absolutely lovely people. And understanding that at this
00:09:16.540 point, we were terrified that we were going to lose kids, right? We were terrified that it all
00:09:24.800 it happened so quickly and I couldn't possibly, we couldn't have a plan quick enough and kids
00:09:30.400 were just going to go. And whether we could save it or not, it was going to slip through our
00:09:34.480 fingers because we weren't fast enough. We didn't know ahead of time. We didn't have any time to
00:09:39.820 plan. And we talked to this individual and we came up with this instantaneous plan. He had a
00:09:47.360 building. He'll renovate it. We went there. We saw the building. We felt the building. We could see
00:09:52.280 how it could be renovated quicker so it could be ready for September. And then we had to have a
00:09:57.740 town hall meeting where we invited all of these families and told them who Rhino Eye were and who
00:10:03.740 the staff was and who everybody was. And they knew. They all knew. And they sat there in front
00:10:08.700 of us and we said, this is the plan. We just need you to be with us. And it was a beautiful moment,
00:10:16.400 actually in that, in that time where I don't know how many parents were in that room. It felt like
00:10:23.320 a hundred and we, and we all just sat there and they were so supportive and so amazing. Um, still
00:10:29.900 trying to figure out, you know, a lot of them wanted to figure out how to stay in that building,
00:10:33.140 but understanding if we had an investor that had a building, it just made sense. And
00:10:37.620 the next day by the next day we had a phone call from a secondary investor said i don't want this
00:10:48.280 school to die either maybe we can figure out a way to stay here it's like a team on one side
00:10:55.840 a team on the other now it was pretty beautiful as stressful as all that was it was pretty
00:11:02.900 beautiful that I had two groups of people that didn't know us very much, knew of us,
00:11:11.100 one a little bit more so than the other, knew of us, and yet believed in us enough,
00:11:17.060 believed in what we were going to say enough and how we were going to teach and all of those things.
00:11:23.220 and they understood that we that that investing in what we'd created there was going to be a
00:11:33.740 beautiful thing so by the second parents night we had a possible second option
00:11:40.420 that second option had just sort of jumped in the game and and needed time to figure things out
00:11:47.280 And we kind of broke off communication there. We didn't have any conversations back and forth. And while that was there, we had to direct ourselves to go down this other road. So we were like, okay, well, we have to, you know, we developed plans and we talked to everybody.
00:12:04.500 And as that's all progressing, we all of a sudden got another call.
00:12:14.500 And this other call, as I almost had, I don't know, well, 40 students and then some wanting to go will follow us.
00:12:24.780 Literally, they said, well, you can teach us in a tent.
00:12:27.360 It doesn't matter.
00:12:28.980 I said, I don't promise.
00:12:30.340 I promise no tents.
00:12:31.800 I like indoor plumbing.
00:12:34.500 And then, you know, all this time, these parents are like being so beautiful about what we'd accomplished.
00:12:40.280 P.S. Throughout this whole thing, Ryan is producing and putting on and getting ready to play Frankenstein.
00:12:48.400 Only because we need more balls in the air, right?
00:12:51.620 So as of last week, we get an inkling that these other investors, this team is interested.
00:13:00.480 They want to see if they can keep us.
00:13:01.760 They want us there.
00:13:02.580 They want us. They want supporting us. They want the name. They want all of the stuff.
00:13:07.520 We thought we were going to have to leave the name. We thought we were going to have to come
00:13:10.500 up with a new name, come up with everything brand new, even though the staff and the ethos was
00:13:16.240 there. We couldn't take Metro for legal and economic reasons that I'm not necessarily going
00:13:24.580 to dive into, but we kind of had to accept it. It was what it is, right? We can't just mourn the
00:13:31.040 loss of that because the name isn't the thing. The substance is the thing, right? So we all
00:13:40.700 sort of pushed through to that agenda and tried to figure out how that was going to work, when
00:13:47.660 that was going to work. And there was trepidation and there was nerves and should we, this other
00:13:52.840 building and is it going to be ready? And there was a lot in the air. And all of a sudden,
00:13:57.200 last week
00:14:00.080 we get another call
00:14:03.120 and the call is from
00:14:06.420 the secondary set of investors
00:14:08.980 and they're like you know what
00:14:10.080 we are going to keep you there
00:14:13.140 we are going to negotiate
00:14:14.560 and try to get the name
00:14:17.040 Metro Prep
00:14:17.960 try to keep you in that building
00:14:19.460 try to keep everybody as intact
00:14:21.780 as we possibly can be
00:14:23.180 but guys we have been through
00:14:25.040 so many ups and downs
00:14:26.180 we have the name
00:14:26.740 we don't have the name. We're going to get this name. We got to get a new number. We're going to
00:14:29.420 go over here. No, we're not going to go over here. We're going to rebuild this floor and that's going
00:14:32.560 to be done by September. We're going to do the next floor. So many things had gone on in my brain
00:14:37.060 that when this was said to us a few days prior in last week, I didn't, I didn't know if I believed
00:14:43.080 it. It was like, okay, it's just another thing. Like another thing. Okay. And then we had a little
00:14:50.780 bit more of a conversation, a little bit more, and then as of Friday, last Friday, as of
00:14:58.200 Friday, well, Thursday, I guess, late Thursday, but we found out Friday for sure, somehow
00:15:04.960 this beautiful set of people and their belief in what Metro is and who we are and what we
00:15:15.260 do said, don't worry guys, we got it. We have the name. We have the building. We are going to keep
00:15:26.380 this family intact. We are going to grow this ethos. We are not going to let this school die.
00:15:34.560 Not in part, not in pieces. We are going to keep it whole. Now here's the beautiful part.
00:15:42.540 we found that out
00:15:45.380 and on Friday we got to announce it
00:15:49.260 and as we announced it
00:15:52.340 you got to remember
00:15:52.980 I had a whole bunch of kids
00:15:54.340 telling Ryan and I
00:15:55.920 they would follow us anywhere
00:15:57.180 right
00:15:58.060 I talked about merch
00:15:59.820 by the way there's a whole
00:16:00.880 school gear line coming out
00:16:02.480 you guys are going to be very impressed
00:16:03.620 I'm going to come up with
00:16:04.440 one piece of gear really quickly
00:16:07.160 because a lot of people
00:16:08.840 have been wanting to see it
00:16:10.580 and buy it
00:16:11.580 and I'm going to make it available, period, to anybody who wants to support.
00:16:17.260 But as all of this is happening, and so we finally tell our kids,
00:16:21.780 we're going to save it this way, we can't save it.
00:16:25.020 And by the way, the other investor understood.
00:16:27.020 The other investor is like, I understand that you can stay in the building.
00:16:29.800 I understand that different options have been made possible.
00:16:33.220 We wish you all the best.
00:16:35.980 Call us if you need anything.
00:16:38.580 These are the good people.
00:16:39.820 I need you to understand the good people we were surrounded by.
00:16:44.800 It's like tiny angels kept popping in to do what they needed to do to get us to where we are.
00:16:52.040 So all these kids were so supportive, right?
00:16:56.040 Their parents were lovely.
00:16:57.580 The kids were lovely, even though they had to have been nervous.
00:17:01.300 And I didn't realize how nervous they were until we made that announcement on Friday.
00:17:06.400 And they screamed.
00:17:09.820 They, like, screamed, like, pure joy when I called their parents the same elation.
00:17:19.820 Now, the name means something.
00:17:21.960 Name's over 42 years old.
00:17:23.560 It means something.
00:17:24.420 That's beautiful.
00:17:25.820 But we've built a beautiful, beautiful school.
00:17:30.040 And we only want to grow that.
00:17:31.840 And I think the idea that the emotional tie that kids had to that building and that place and that name and that history, pieces of Wayne and pieces of what we'd done, and they screened with such joy, what I realized in that moment is they weren't 100% sure to follow us.
00:17:55.620 they weren't even like you know 70 they were nervous but they never for a moment
00:18:06.980 made me feel and ryan feel anything but supported and anything like more you know anything less than
00:18:15.620 a family we were all going down that road together and we were going to go full steam and we were
00:18:24.560 going to go locked in step, and we were going to go hand in hand to accomplish what we needed to
00:18:30.680 do next. And when we found out that we saved the school in its entirety, those screams didn't just
00:18:41.020 tell me how much Metro and that building and what we created meant to them. It told me that we met
00:18:49.340 so much to them that they were willing to put aside, set aside all of their fears and trepidations
00:18:59.500 because they believed more in the people we were and the ethos we created and the school
00:19:09.860 environment we knew we could recreate. They believed more in that than the comfort and
00:19:15.320 the stability and the, and the memory of the school that they were already in.
00:19:24.480 I had kids saying, I knew you'd do it.
00:19:27.400 I knew that wasn't the end.
00:19:29.640 I knew you got, guys, I almost started to cry.
00:19:37.440 I can't explain to you what a beautiful foundation that we never have, that we never
00:19:45.260 had or i never felt we had until now because these 40 50 60 70 families who were gonna ride with us
00:19:54.540 no matter what they were going with us
00:19:56.640 and and it was hard like we had a hard conversations and not everything was perfect
00:20:03.520 and it was scary and it was this and it was that and do we are we gonna have that same thing or
00:20:07.500 that same thing and what are we gonna do are my kids gonna be seen the same way and respected the
00:20:12.560 same way and all the things they're worried about. And these families were going to ride
00:20:16.900 with us anyway. It's like a test of fire. It's like they said, well, we're going to find
00:20:27.880 out what you guys are made of. If this is real, if what we've created at Metro is real,
00:20:36.240 the name doesn't matter, but if it's real, they will ride with us no matter what. And
00:20:41.040 they did. They did. I get calls and text messages of support of all of this beautiful stuff. Kids
00:20:50.980 talking about new merch and gear and what they wanted and blah, blah, blah, how they wanted to
00:20:55.460 help paint the new school, whatever they needed. We were going to, and it solidified us. It cemented
00:21:04.400 us, not just as a school, but as a legitimate family. I'm not saying we didn't lose some kids.
00:21:10.200 sure. Some kids, unfortunately, made commitments before we knew we were staying. And, you know,
00:21:17.480 it's sad because I wish we could have done it faster. I wish we could have done it clearer.
00:21:22.100 I wish we could have done it seamlessly. So nobody had to be afraid at any given moment.
00:21:26.180 But I'm telling you right now, the fear we all felt and the trepidation and the, and the,
00:21:32.440 maybe even the terror, we all felt it together and we all went down the road anyway.
00:21:40.200 And as we went down the road anyway, we built something in chaos that is beautiful.
00:21:49.780 It's like when you have a relationship and you go through hell and back and all of a
00:21:53.780 sudden your relationship is 10 times as strong as it used to be.
00:21:56.360 That's what just happened.
00:21:59.900 Do I wish, you know, do I wish, oh, everything was smooth sailing?
00:22:04.000 Sure.
00:22:05.160 But part of me doesn't.
00:22:06.200 You know, part of me, part of me, and this is weird, is thankful for the fire that we
00:22:18.300 walked through together because it fused us.
00:22:23.120 It made me understand what I do and why I do it.
00:22:27.960 It made me believe that the good and the way that our teachers teach and Wayne's heart led that school is the foundation of everything that is good and that is powerful.
00:22:45.120 And now we get to do a rebirth.
00:22:47.500 Now we get to step into the future with this school and this ethos and build it and magnify it and tell the story of it.
00:22:55.360 and even better, understand that those students and those families were just as scared as we were,
00:23:05.440 but they were going to go anyways because they believed in what Metro stood for.
00:23:12.860 I was talking to one of the investors, one of the primary investors in Metro and buying the school
00:23:22.960 and now running the school, and they told me a story
00:23:27.540 of why they had such a heartfelt connection.
00:23:35.040 They'd heard about Wayne, and they heard about Metro,
00:23:37.920 and they would hear from other people that they were connected to
00:23:42.860 about this school and what it did,
00:23:45.240 and how it took kids that maybe didn't fit in every other single place,
00:23:52.040 that maybe struggled with different learning abilities or maybe, you know, lived with different
00:24:02.180 levels, like on the autism spectrum, maybe, or they lived with any kind of, you know,
00:24:12.580 neurodivergence that you could possibly think of. And when you throw them in a class of 30 kids
00:24:17.980 in private or public school, they get ignored. They evaporate. They fall into, they merge into
00:24:27.080 the background and nobody sees the beauty and the potential and the amazing parts of who they are.
00:24:37.320 And the stories that they would hear about Metro and Metro alumni and what that school did
00:24:44.540 and the testimonials that they read or that they saw reminded them.
00:24:56.180 They have a family member, sibling's child who is autistic
00:25:01.600 and was systematically sort of excluded and banished from the public system
00:25:08.320 and they tried to put them in the private system
00:25:10.220 and it didn't work there and it didn't work here.
00:25:12.300 They actually thought of moving to where Metro was in order, because they'd heard such beautiful things about what our school has been able to do and how we've been able to do it.
00:25:28.460 And luckily for them, they didn't need to move.
00:25:30.960 They found a school that was amazing for their child.
00:25:34.820 But when they heard about what we do, this person knew that they didn't want Metro to go anywhere.
00:25:43.800 Not only did they not want Metro to go anywhere.
00:25:46.180 It's not just like, oh, I don't want it to go anywhere because it's good school.
00:25:49.160 It deserves to exist.
00:25:50.040 No, no, no, no, no.
00:25:50.980 I don't want it to go anywhere, and I want to make sure that I am a part of it.
00:25:55.520 I want to make sure that I'm an element in this sort of new precipice, new, and even
00:26:05.420 though we've been around for a long time, but we are at a very beautiful place of emergence
00:26:11.420 and they wanted to be a part of it.
00:26:16.060 And they were willing to bet on us.
00:26:20.380 We're not the biggest school in the world.
00:26:22.280 We're still trying to make a comeback.
00:26:23.660 We still need to grow.
00:26:24.940 we still need to do all these things. But to them, that wasn't the point. That's a marketing issue.
00:26:30.920 That's a publicity issue. But what we've done in that school for the last 42 years and me for the
00:26:45.160 Class 22, what Ryan has done, and what our staff has done, has created this space where
00:26:53.480 not every, look, it's not Shangri-La, but it is a space where we ensure a few things,
00:27:02.040 or we try to. We keep our class sizes small enough so that nobody can fade into the background.
00:27:10.340 And we keep our minds open enough to understand that every single person, that every single student has untapped, unrealized potential.
00:27:24.260 And if we can only make them feel safe and secure and special enough, it will fall out, it will be built up, and they will be able to do great things.
00:27:42.000 And that's it.
00:27:43.820 That's all we want to do.
00:27:45.640 There's no economic endgame.
00:27:48.500 Well, we want you to make $300,000 a year.
00:27:51.000 We want everybody to be doctors and lawyers.
00:27:53.680 It's not about that.
00:27:55.620 It's about figuring out what is how, how do I make that kid safe to learn?
00:28:05.040 How do I make it okay for them to be afraid, but take the risk anyway?
00:28:09.920 How do I make them understand these students that they are powerhouse of potential?
00:28:15.940 And it doesn't matter if they're wrong, they just need to give it a go and they need to
00:28:20.120 go 100%.
00:28:21.200 If I can do that, if I can, and my school can do that with students,
00:28:29.840 it is the best possible educational platform you will ever create.
00:28:36.100 If you can teach the student and not the curriculum, you will create magic.
00:28:43.500 And the magic will allow those kids to grow up in a world with a level of confidence and self-esteem and empowerment that will overcome all of the obstacles life can throw in their way.
00:29:06.960 That's what speaks to people.
00:29:08.760 it's not the suit and the tie
00:29:13.020 and the Ivy League
00:29:14.740 boathouse row
00:29:16.640 no no no no
00:29:17.480 I do like a good boat
00:29:20.200 it's about
00:29:23.380 taking a student
00:29:26.860 and making them feel more powerful
00:29:29.500 than when they walked in that door
00:29:30.980 because if I can do that
00:29:32.640 if Metro can continue to do that
00:29:38.760 There is no greater accomplishment that I can possibly achieve in my life than that.
00:29:51.160 So now we're on a new journey.
00:29:53.000 now we're on a new journey to build to to to save metro to rebuild to expand to empower
00:30:04.280 to take the the the glimmer you know what i feel like it is this is going to be a good comparison
00:30:14.320 you know at the end of the never-ending story i'm sorry if you're not old enough to walk and
00:30:21.520 you don't know the never-ending story, but for the love of God, please go watch it. I don't know
00:30:24.720 what you've been doing with your life. The end of the never-ending story, when the nothing has
00:30:28.540 taken it all, but the Empress has that little tiny bit of glimmer in her hand, a little tiny
00:30:35.940 bit of sand. And she looks at Sebastian and he goes, it's all gone. It's all gone. And the
00:30:42.500 Empress, and I'm paraphrasing, says, it's not gone. This is all you need to wish and to make
00:30:51.000 something happen once again. And with that tiny grain of sand, with that grain that has been
00:30:58.920 left over, Sebastian creates a whole new world. The Rock Eater, Atreyu, Artex, they're all back
00:31:07.980 because all you need, all you need is a grain of sand and a spark and magic can happen.
00:31:21.000 so i hope you guys come along with me and see all the magic that we're about to make happen
00:31:24.920 and if you have any beautiful ideas if you have any ways to help if you have any any notions of of
00:31:35.000 how to empower this beautiful school to grow and to spark once again i would love to listen and i
00:31:42.520 would love for you to be a part of this journey and i promise you i'll keep you updated every
00:31:48.120 single moment along the way. But we all know it's going to start with that hoodie.
00:31:54.020 So until next time, thank you so much for hanging out. I will see you next week.
00:31:59.440 Same bat time, same bat channel. Dismissed. 0.99