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Given your awareness of the systemic problems with codified systems, I would think you would be more interested in reducing/eliminating barriers of entry for entrepreneurial initiatives, including funding that allows private initiatives to compete on an equal footing with government ones. In the US there have been many states passing Educational Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) that allow the funding to follow the child in K12 education, with very few restrictions on how the funds are spent - in essence we are moving towards parental satisfaction as the only form of accountability. As a consequence, thousands of new entrepreneurial initiatives in education are coming into being with remarkable freedom from traditional structures and accountability systems. In a more market oriented system, as particular codified systems ossify and suffer from Goodhart's Law, new ones can constantly arise that are more aligned, in this case, with the actual lifelong well-being of the child.

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