Apart from the computer science classes we didn't get to use computers in high school. At uni it was more common for people to make notes on their laptops rather than on paper. Not sure how is it in school these days, probably one of you parents would be able to tell.

One tool which amazes me is tools like Grammarly, Text Help, or even the Editor which Microsoft Word uses. On our grammar classes there were a few kids who were not dyslexic but were clearly struggling and would get bad grades for not being able to spell a few words correctly, or put the adjective in the wrong place in a sentence. Tools like these would have made school a lot less stressful for these people. Of course doing our best to learn the correct grammar at least for our native language is important, but a little help wouldn't hurt, especially if it comes to words or sentence structures which you don't necessarily use in everyday language.

My first foreign language was German, but when I had to change schools they were a few lessons ahead of my old school, and even though we told the teacher, she didn't take this into consideration, and I constantly got bad grades for not knowing stuff what I never had a chance to learn. I picked up English as it was required for graduation to get a national language exam from one foreign language. Only studied it in school for one year, then a private teacher helped me with a few things and I took the exam successfully. But my bad experience with my German teacher left its toll on me and I forgot even that little I knew in German, getting a mental block every time I tried to speak. Trying to pick it up now again, and I have to say writing goes a lot easier thanks to these tools, and I wish they existed when I was in high school, maybe it would have helped me to catch up to my new class. (Don't ask why my parents didn't try to speak to the teacher or find some help for me, because I only wish I knew...)

Since I work in IT I noticed how many native speakers get to use these tools through the Reasonable Work Adjustments program and it made me wonder, if people wanting some help with their daily work done in a foreign language could one day be eligible for it too? In an ideal world it shouldn't make a difference if you struggle with your own native language or with a foreign language for whatever reason. The same tool can help both, and make learning and work less stressful.

Of course it depends on the community and people you meet, luckily most of the time people around me were nice and helpful in this country, but sometimes I had colleagues who would look down on foreigners when they made a mistake in their grammar.