The new strategy at the school, is the teachers are providing the minimum amount of information they think the children need to know each semester, and are testing their knowledge on that frequently. In later years they will focus more on how to apply that knowledge. The meeting was giving us parents the reasons for doing that, and how to help our kids learn all the information they are being given.
Kia: It is different, as most of the homework is revision, and there is so much more testing now. The meeting last night said it should reduce anxiety in the long-term though. My son seems to be doing better under this new strategy, so I hope it works for him. He does find remembering things difficult, but going over it again and again does work eventually.
I hope you sort it out, Leanne.
I'm sorry you're lonely.
Back to my class today!
ETA: I walked into the dishwasher and bruised my ankle this afternoon. It's really sore now!