Chapter 722

"Since all eight orphanages co-funded the project, the private academy ended up nearly the size of a formal elementary school," Jayden said. "We even managed to hire enough teachers to cover both middle and high school." "Oh?" I couldn't hide my surprise. When I first came up with the idea of founding a private academy, I had only hoped to help the kids finish their middle school education. I never imagined it would include high school education too. Including both middle and high school meant the private academy would need to support seven full academic years. That required nearly double the teaching staff. Even though we weren't using a traditional school building and had instead renovated an abandoned factory, the original 160 thousand dollars the eight orphanages had pooled together wouldn't come close to covering it. "How much funding did you end up securing through sponsorships?" Hearing my question, Jayden lit up with excitement. "Maybe it's because Mr. Wright managed to g