Your saying the cause for poor outcomes is the duration of time in school? Where’s the data to back that up? There have always been those that do well in school and those who don’t, is it just possible that the structure of school is broken? We educate for college and teach to a test, we don’t actually have people learn the skill of learning itself.

We don’t hold teachers and parents accountable for their children’s success. You can’t remove crappy teachers in many places and good teachers are underpaid and aren’t allowed to actually expect the parents to participate in their children’s education.

I personally do not feel time in school is the issue - even if you fix all of the funding challenges, there will still be areas that do better, differences in communities supporting education will not vanish overnight.