Review days are just the beginning for schools such as Sudbury.
In the end, it seems that review days are almost win-win days and if more schools follow suit, parents' evenings could soon be consigned to history.
The case took another turn when May stepped in to adjourn the review days before it was due to start, to consider whether McKinnon is fit to stand trial in the US.
So it's no wonder that an increasing number of schools, such as Sudbury Upper School and Arts College in Suffolk, have decided to address these problems by replacing parents' evenings with "student review days".
"Review days are much better than parents' evenings," parent Lynsey Benson says, "as we are not wasting time travelling between classrooms and teachers, and there is time to get good feedback.
Imagine a singer-songwriter having emerged in the 60's who combined the poetical and political allusiveness of Bob Dylan, the melodic seductiveness of Burt Bacharach, the good looks of a French New Wave actor, the hip thinkiness of Susan Sontag in her Partisan Review days, the sheer pop weirdness of Captain Beefheart... that, sort of, is Caetano Veloso.
(She didn't review "Days of Heaven" in the magazine; in a capsule review, she called it "an empty Christmas tree: you can hang all your dumb metaphors on it". Penelope Gilliatt did review it, and called it "one of the best films about America in a long time").
In 1956 he landed on The Economist and, luckily for us, stayed there, until and beyond his retirement, contributing a book review days before he died.In this section By George Sun, sun, sun and Idaho Divided we stand Filling Pat Moynihan's shoes Stand in line!
So now, we have 80 per cent of parents and their children attending two review days in the year, compared to the 50 per cent who would come by themselves to a parents' evening and run out of time before they had seen all of their teachers".
"People had a way of hearing what they wanted in Obama's words," Jodi Kantor wrote in The New York Times of those Law Review days.
My students loved using this game for "review days".
