Historically, towns would have basically a single schoolhouse with one room where children of all ages would go for education. Did they just all learn the same thing, regardless of whether they were 8 years old or 15 years old? How long would they spend in school and for how many years?
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It probably varied based on the specific teacher, the time it was in, and other things, but I have a bit of experience in a multi-year classroom.
In practice, when it’s math time, the older kids did harder math, while the younger kids did easier math. When it was reading time, the younger kids were asked to do their spellings, while the older kids discussed the story.
So no, we didn’t all learn the same thing. There were just few enough of us that we could all get more attention specifically, so it didn’t matter that Tim was in the 5th grade while I was in 1st.
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