Zach Latta
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2022 by Zach Latta · across every show →
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Apr 27, 2022 positive
Latta proposes splitting schooling into a four-hour core and student-directed pursuits
“I think my proposal is two systems. I propose one system that's like normal public school that where you have a high floor, low ceiling, everybody learns to read and write, but it's hard to go off the beaten path, but that only takes like four hours a day or s…”
Apr 27, 2022 bearish
Apr 27, 2022 positive
Apr 27, 2022 neutral
Latta: Hack Club serves 10,000–20,000 teens with a 10-person staff
“At this point, hack club serves between 10 and 20,000 teenagers. That's, you know, larger than many undergraduate programs at universities. And our staff is 10 and our budget smaller than second grade at an average size elementary school.”
Apr 27, 2022 neutral
Latta: Student school satisfaction plummets from 75% in elementary to 25% in secondary
“When you look at what students say every year, there's a big survey that's done. It's over a million students are surveyed. And one of the questions asked is, do you like school from K through about six? The answer is usually overwhelmingly yes. It's like 75% …”
Apr 27, 2022
Latta: Educational programs must feel editable so students act like owners
“We try and make Hack Club as an organization and as a set of programs feel very editable. If you're a teenager in Hack Club and you're thinking, I don't like this thing Hack Club is doing, or I don't like this experience I'm going through. It should feel like …”
Apr 27, 2022 positive
Apr 27, 2022
Apr 27, 2022 negative
Latta: Education's core problem is that institutions never build for students
“I think the biggest problem in education is very simple. It's that when you look at all the different players that make up education for young people, when you look at Pearson, when you look at schools, when you look at school administrators, when you look at …”
Apr 27, 2022
Latta: 'Football Heroes' reached number one on App Store with 1M+ downloads
“So when I was 15, when I was 16, I worked on two apps. One was a game called Football Heroes. I was part of a small team. I was the youngest and it became the number one game on the App Store. We got over a million downloads.”