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My high school son has one teacher who has admitted to being very OCD. I told him for heavens sake learn her system(s) of doing things perfectly. The woman luckily is very entertaining so I think he will want to please her (English teacher).

She had a funny story that all the teachers were getting moved around over the summer and she was waking up from nightmares about what if her blue organizational systems didn't match her new room? Was she going to paint? Was she going to have to buy all new stuff? That is what was keeping her up at night. Luckily her new room coordinates with her lovely blue storage boxes.

But yes learning 7 different ways of doing things can be overwhelming.

I just wonder if all the materials management is serving a useful purpose. I know it would be helpful and DS needs a lot of work in this area. But my oldest kid had an "organizational system" (ahem) that basically involved having a huge stack of papers on top of his binder at all times. He took all AP, graduated with 4.3 something, and had a 33 on his ACT. He also is a quick processor so that certainly played a part.

Totally different kid and DS12 would probably lose the stack, as well. But there does seem to be an awful lot of emphasis on the "how" and not the "what" and the "why."