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My Experience With Spanish Immersion
It is amazing to me to see how much I have accomplished since second grade. I feel as if the little girl who walked throughout the halls of Spanish Immersion, the girl who had little faith in herself to succeed, had changed into a mature, hard working young lady. In second grade I was partly depressed. I had felt as if life had no meaning. I struggled in school, and did not appreciate what was being taught. My mom suggested that I may have had dyslexia, but we were not certain that was the reason. It turns out, she was correct. Two weeks into second grade I absolutely hated school. The teachers and administration expected me to just magically learn English after years of being immersed in Spanish. I didn’t fully understand what was being taught
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