One of the issues I have heard and read about with regard to foreign language immersion programs for gifted kids is that the foreign language is an additional factor holding typical kids back, but not gifted kids, who tend to be ready soon for advanced work in the foreign language as well. So unless the program is aimed at and taught to advanced-to-gifted6 kids, the mismatch between the level the class is working at and the level your kid would need to work at can be even greater in a language immersion program. On the other hand, language immersion only for the advanced to gifted cohort in combination with an advanced curriculum also for the target language tends to work very well.
Unless the FI classes are (officially or unofficially) aimed at that cohort, you may run into problems with curriculum mismatch fairly soon.
Last edited by Tigerle; 09/30/14 05:28 AM.
