Bilingual Education Based on My Experience

I wish I were an American. When I was a high school student, I blamed my fate for having been born in America but then taken back to Pakistan for five years which caused me to forget to speak English and when I came back five years later I had to learn everything all over again. If I were an American, I wouldn't need to study English as a second language.
Pakistani students usually begin studying English at school in the seventh grade. Then, at least until graduation from high school, they study English. Since I have come back to United States, I have struggled with this second language for 30 years now.
I heard in a debate about bilingual education, that four years is enough to learn English. They must be kidding, or they don't know how hard it is to learn a foreign language. Although I've been in the United States for most of my life, but I'm still learning words, phrases and idioms every day.
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