Were? It still happens. My friend's kids are forced to use such a system now. Note taking is about the note taker's relationship with the subject so it's idios

Were? It still happens. My friend's kids are forced to use such a system now. Note taking is about the note taker's relationship with the subject so it's idiosyncratic. A potentially useful technique can become a harmful prescription by stupid teachers. Showing student's lots of techniques and helping them develop there own methods seems more useful. But it is easier to make a rubric to test stuff like this then help a kid figure out what works.