My entire school did this. We even got a special notebook thing that had the pages laid out and also had other organizational stuff in it. The notebook and the

My entire school did this. We even got a special notebook thing that had the pages laid out and also had other organizational stuff in it. The notebook and the notes in it were what we got graded on. No homework, no tests, we weren't really expected to study the notes, just take them. There were some other activities that involved the notes though at school, semi regular group and class discussions and we would reference notes. I also seem to remember teachers giving us notes too. Like after our notes from the previous day were graded they would handout a set of notes that were the ideal notes. I actually liked it, we only had 4 classes per day that were 90 minutes each and two of them were non-academic like PE, Band or Autoshop. Then if you were doing poorly you could come in early or late for zero and fifth block which were a 1 hour condensed recap of your previous academic classes. It also wasn't setup by grade so you could have all years in the same class even though most had a majority of one grade. It was a bad school though, an hour to get through metal detectors, ID had to be work facing outward at all times in an acceptable position. There was no being late or tardy either. The doors locked when the bell rang and no one could be in the halls without a security escort. If you did leave class to go to the bathroom you couldn't go back. Even still there were shootings. No bookbags were allowed so we didn't have take home books unless we were reading one in class like Malcolm X biography or the caged bird.