To 37 - Intriguing idea. How would you keep adults (parents, relatives) separate from the children? Would the children have any exposure to the world outside the institution they are in? And the big question, unless the children were forced to enroll in this against their, or their parents’ will, (which defeats the entire purpose), how would you populate the classrooms?
I figure the best bet would be to take an unoccupied Caribbean island, build your infrastructure there, and give a big sales pitch to parents that their children were going to get a good education, with school uniforms, food, medical care, and that it was all going to be “free”. Just not on Haiti.
Oddly enough, a lot of Haitian parents would probably go for it. According to Factbook, 38% of Haiti’s population (9.6m), is under the age of 14. So a rough guess would be that about 8% of their population is 4-8 years old, which would be the target age. Taking the best of those you have a pool of almost half a million children to choose from.
Starting with a first batch of 50,000, almost all would be voluntary by their parents. Taking 50k new students a year, it would be a decade before enrollment would even start to taper off some.
In other words, getting the children would not be the hard part. The hard part would be sustained funding, and getting a pool of competent teachers.