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> What is the rationale for keeping everyone together, other than timetabling issues?

That's exactly the issue, together with too many children per teacher. Unless you can adequately replace a teacher with digital learning solutions (still very sparse; even worse in non-english speaking countries), any increase in "own pace" would result in an increase of teacher-student time.

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Or just fund public schools at the level that private schools do and have reasonable class sizes.

Or just normalize school funding at a national level and get rid of the racist classism our predecessors built into law. Good schools should stand out for their teachers not how much tax the residents pay.

Or attach funding to each kid and let schools compete.

I am not suggesting a be all end all fix for education. Obviously, school choice has its place in any healthy system.

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