When Scout started school, she found herself in the midst of new methods of teaching, which had been recently introduced.  In class, much work was done in groups rather than by individual students.  Scout had to study topics in units and complete projects.  These new techniques fell under the category of Group Dynamics.  Jem liked to call this new way of teaching "the Dewey Decimal System."  Scout thought that it was all unnecessary and boring.  After all, her father and her uncle had been educated at home and they were both very successful.  Scout did not think that she needed all these added teaching techniques to receive an education.  All Scout wanted to do was learn.  Before starting school, Scout had learned through reading with her father.  Now this focus on Group Dynamics was being done throughout the entire school.  Each day in school, Scout "inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system" and she had the feeling that she "was being cheated out of something."  Scout found school to be a drudgery, but she knew that it could be much more interesting if not for "the Dewey Decimal System."