DS is in Y4 - he has history, geography and RE with the same teacher (prep school). DS tells me that the lessons consist of the teacher writing things on the board and he has to copy them down. Now DS loves history - he has read lots of history books including HE Marshall's Our Island Story and Gombrich's Little history of the World and normally I'd expect him to love history and geography. But he hates these lessons as they don't allow him to do his own thing (teacher has told him not to think but do what he tells him to do - apparently). So far I've told him that this is a bit like a university lecture and it's good practice to learn to write fast (he is very slow at writing and has been kept back when he hasn't finished copying stuff which adds to his pain). We're new to the school - what should I do? Is this at all normal for a prep school or just sloppy teaching?
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