[brtkdotse]

That’s odd. Outside of reading comprehension assignments I never had any fact memorization as part of any language course.

Perhaps they changed the curriculum since the 90s

[Moru]

Yes, I was very confused when daughter came home with some bad scores on a test and couldn't understand what she meant. I had to call the teacher to get an explanation that it wasn't history lesson, it was english lesson... Really weird is just not covering it.

Swedish schools gets a makeover every time we change government. It's one of those things they just have to "fix" when they get to power.