#i read and write for funin english so i had an advantage

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Im still salty about how french immersion was handled in my school. Like they actively prevented us from learning english the way all the other kids did, then in highschool they shoved us into the same classes as those English kids and were like "wait why are all of these french immersion students failing english, they're supposed to be the "smart" class," like what did you expect????? Did you think we'd absorb english grammar through osmosis? We were literally forbidden from engaging in anything that wasnt french for eight hours a day five days a week. We were very deliberately not taught english grammar rules. My ninth grade english teacher had a fit when she realized how little we knew and she dedicated like two entire classes to trying to catch up the FI students and even then most of the FI students only barely managed not to fail. Almost every student who came close to failing english was a french immersion student.