My wife signed on for SFI after she moved, and found that the level and expectations were so low she had difficulty staying engaged with the classes and course material.

She looked into private tutoring and was fluent in Swedish in 4 months, and ended up teaching Swedish to highschool aged kids after just 2.5 years.

To this day she wonders if SFI wasn’t secretly designed to push anyone with any kind of ambition out of the system.

I personally think it’s a case of bigotry of low expectations, but it’s clear it really doesn’t work for the intended purpose.