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You just need to swap schools when you are beginning times tables. Learn the easy ones in the first school up to say 6, then the next school is already past ten, and assumes you know it. Its easier to work it out than learn it on your own. That's what happened with me.

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How in the world do you justify the effort of swapping schools to get out of learning the times tables?

It sounds like you can swap school to avoid learning anything! Seriously, it sounds like a good way to avoid memorizing historical or political knowledge.

I was never taught politics in school. I learned Scottish history (where I am from) when I was way too young and have forgotten much of it, which is a shame when people ask me about it.

I'm pretty sure he isn't telling you how to get out of learning them, he's answering the OP about how it could have happened that a child wouldn't learn them and would instead have some other system.

Still it's pretty amusing to imagine him as a kid executing an elaborate plan to trick his parents into moving just to avoid learning parts of the multiplication table... ^^;

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