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That's fair enough, I think I went too far by restricting it to natives. But check his other comment, apparently these schools put hardly any pressure on the students at all, no wonder they don't work!
Agreed, I think /u/gog is describing what happens when immersion meets lax schooling. And perhaps it is prone to encourage laxity. Vocabulary and grammar tests are "easy" to grade. Immersion-as-technically defined requires more work to grade to objectively, which is a great boon for teachers and schools that don't want to be harsh.
I suppose that for "immersion" to work at all as a classroom method, the classes need to be a bit nasty, which can be psychologically brutal for weak-willed. It doesn't work if the kids can just ignore the teacher or laugh at him/her. I remember the immersion classes I attended as quite stressful. Yet many implementers think of it as a nice cuddly alternative to vocabulary tests, whereas it should be anything but. If you have not done your vocabulary homework, you will be embarrassed for the 5 minutes the teacher has time to question you. If you come to immersion class unprepared, you'd be embarrassed for the whole lesson.
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