My experience as an English student

I was raised bilingual in Spanish and English, therefore I had a higher level than average. English was obviously very easy for me in school but I thought it would be helpful for my writing and reading skills.

When I think about it now, I think my teachers should have given me extra readings to do to then comment them. This would have been a good chance to take good advantage of my time in English class and learning something I didn´t know. Instead I sat there like one more student and had to follow the speed of the rest of my class mates, which was just boring and a waste of time. Some teachers also expected from me to follow the book and just write answers and vocabulary that had been seen in class. In other words, I was expected to forget all my "extra knowledge" in the classroom and only to remember what everybody else was learning. This means, that if I ever wrote something in American English, the teacher would consider it wrong because it wasn´t what we had seen in class. Obviously I didn´t give into that but didn´t feel like making a big fuss about it either. In my opinion, teachers who did this were those who had less knowledge of English and were uncomfortable with the fact of having a student in class who could feel more comfortable with the language than them. Maybe I was more familiar with the language since it´s my second mother tongue, but I always felt I had a lot of things to learn in regard to English, just like we had a lot to learn in Spanish. I wish someone would have thought of this and had thought of an alternative for those who had a notable higher level than average.