Originally Posted by SiaSL
I won't touch Bostonian's article with a 10 foot pole, because the wrongness, it burns :P But yeah, if your goal is the hamster wheel of NYC private school admissions you probably want to avoid the Spanish immersion program, and concentrate on.. test prep?
Even if you are not, my broader point is that English proficiency is much more important than Spanish proficiency in the U.S., so I would be willing to trade very little of the former for the latter.