I didn't get grammar until 8th grade (with more in the following years), and that was only because I transferred from a supposedly "good" public school to a private one (which was more luck than anything - some of the private schools in the area are just as shitty as the public ones, except at least the public ones don't make you take "Christian womanhood" classes). Even so, 10th grade was the only year we really had to buckle down and learn grammar, because we were assumed to already know the basics beforehand and to have gotten it all afterward. (This was a common pattern - in college, all our professors assumed we had all learned at least basic grammar and composition skills, but this was just not the case. I think the teachers of each year of school assumed we had learned it last year, and so most of them didn't bother to teach it.) I still got my most thorough understanding of the parts of speech etc. in Spanish and Latin classes, because not having years of models of how to speak and write in those languages to instinctively copy, I really had to know what I was doing to conjugate and decline everything properly.
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