He's in year 10 so just getting into his GCSE courses. Up to now I've tried to support the school but leave them to it. Even when he was in infants, I rarely even spoke to the teacher outside of parents' evening, trusting them to know their job and get on with it. In hindsight, there were a couple of things I probably should have got involved with. This is just for context, as I am feeling the need to interfere now regarding DS1's computer science teacher.
He's not a particularly academic child and TBH has had a lot of could try harder type reports in secondary. However, there have been definite signs of maturity over the last 6 months and he is genuinely interested in learning and doing his best for GCSE. He tells me most of his teachers this year are strict (which he doesn't necessarily see as good!) but interesting good teachers and he feels he's learning well from them.
However, he's really quite upset about his CS teacher. He says a lesson generally goes as follows:
-She will give a brief outline of what's required in the lesson and leave them to it
-If they ask for clarification, she tells them she's already explained, so they'll have to look it us, which mean Google
-There is one boy in the class who is very skilled so the whole class are gathered round his desk for help throughout the lesson
DS1 feels she's unable to help them because she doesn't understand the subject and that the level of work they're doing is below that in the other class (no setting). Some lessons they also have a student teacher (or TA, not entirely clear) who is apparently much more willing and able to help.
He tells me that most people in her class last year scored less than D and that the other class got mostly As, but that's obv just hearsay that I have no way of verifying
I know they're year10 and certain degree of independent learning is probably expected but is this right?
If not, how do I go about approaching the school and what can/should I expect them to do about it?