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I think that the following sentence is grammatically incorrect:
He prepared for school like he always does.
Should it be more grammatical to say:
He prepared for school like he always did.
The reason is that the event is already in the past, so past tense should be used in the whole sentence.
Is my understanding correct?
"He prepared for school like he always does." is the correct usage. The preparing for school is past tense because the preparing happened in the past, the attending school is present tense as he currently attends school.
If you said, "He prepared for school like he always did." you would be saying he no longer attends school but he is preparing for it anyway. If that is what is intended then the second sentence is the correct one, but that seems unlikely to me.
