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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Tom Torkelson is the Founder of the Idea Public Schools. IDEA was founded to combat educational deficiencies they saw in their students in order to focus on college readiness. Lance and Tom toured one of the Austin schools and then sat to discuss the origins of the school and their 100% success rate of getting kids to college.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Forward Podcast, I'm Lance, your host, every week. |
0:06.7 | Has anybody else gotten addicted to playing HQ, the HQD. |
0:14.7 | It's like a whole thing, first of all, |
0:16.9 | well, it's a whole thing for my family. |
0:18.6 | We play like every night, |
0:19.6 | eight o'clock, central time every night, |
0:22.1 | the whole family grabs their phone or their device and is playing this game. |
0:25.2 | By the way, it's like I've only made it. Like the far as I made I think it's like five questions. |
0:30.4 | Seems like question number five is always like this one where they're like, okay, we're going to get rid of all you posers and then go on to, you know, questions, 12, which I don't know how anybody can answer all those questions, but if you haven't checked it out check it out |
0:46.7 | Hey before I get to my guest this week Tom Torkelson super fascinating guy |
0:51.8 | Awesome conversation about his thoughts on education, the launch and the birth |
0:57.8 | and the really the success of Idea School. |
1:03.6 | Before I get to that, I just wanted to say thank you to all the listeners and viewers |
1:08.9 | for your attitude and your open mind regarding me a Khalifa. I know that some of you were probably |
1:17.2 | curious about the two of us together. I hope the conversation didn't disappoint. Certainly the feedback |
1:24.8 | that we got into the inbox was very very positive as well. We got Mia if you're |
1:30.7 | listening we have quite a few offers of people that would like to go on dates, |
1:35.6 | one of which submitted his W-2 and photos and a lot of other things. |
1:41.6 | Pretty funny. |
1:42.8 | But yeah, just thanks for, |
1:45.6 | thanks for keeping an open mind and, |
1:48.2 | and, and, um, and giving it a shot. |
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