You want to give people a two minute explanation of count Day and what you found. So one of the things that we've got wrong in education is we basically pay for butts in the seat. Count Day was the day. It was like the census. It was when we counted every kid in school, which school. And as long as you were there, you got funded for the year. So obviously if you're a tax taker or you're running a school, you want to make sure everybody's there. (09:29–09:38)
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