Welcome to two-hour learning, where kids learn twice as much, twice as fast.
It’s true — kids can crush academics in just two hours a day. And by “crush,” I mean, climb their way to the top 1% of the nation. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s happening right now in the halls of our flagship school, Alpha. And your kids could be next.
To ease the swell of panic that probably just rose in your throat — “you mean the newest, most successful form of education includes kids coming home after just two hours of school!?” — you should know that the “two hour” model only applies to hard and fast academics. (Yes. Take a breath. All is well.)
It works like this:
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Mornings are for academics. Kids spend two hours immersed in deep, focused learning with traditional academia: math, reading, science, history.
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Afternoons are for life skills. Kids spend four hours participating in workshops that simulate real-world skills: public-speaking, entrepreneurship, creative writing, financial literacy.
Kids aren’t built to sit butt-in-chair for six hours a day. Intuitively, we know this. They need movement and conversation, things to build and challenges to overcome. It’s frustrating enough for adults to be tethered to their desk all day. Why subject kids to the same fate? Why not fill their afternoons with activities that inspire them, that show them how the world actually works? Say, launching a food truck business, or writing a Broadway musical, rather than nodding off during post-lunch afternoon algebra. Kids are far more capable than we give them credit for, and the six hour school day keeps them shackled in these chains of unbelief.
The two-hour learning model, however, gives kids precisely what they need — legitimate academia and real-world experience — precisely how they need it — action over absorption.
