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I think that this could work very well for an HG+ student of this age.

We have friends whose solidly MG DD (of an age with my DD) came up through an immersion program like this-- starting in K, and the program fed into the local junior high and naturally ended at the conclusion of elementary. She is now a HS freshman and is doing well, though there were some delays in literacy when she was K-3. On the one hand, that might be bad news for non-GT students, but in terms of HG+ ones, I can only see how that would be awesome. Really ideal in terms of going "sideways" rather than accelerating, if you see what I mean.

Oh, and after five years in the immersion environment, she is pretty much fluent in the other language, too. WAY cool.