Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
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I feel like my early English education missed a shitload of these things because I just moved around a bunch and different schools taught at different times just in a way that I missed some foundational aspects, but like just the terminologies. Ended up just kinda learning English based on a "gut feeling" as to whether or not it sounded correct based on how much I read as a child.
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