Plenty of homeschoolers learn foreign languages online or through "after-schooling" programs. If you want her to learn French, there are numerous resources available that wouldn't require you to be her primary instructor, and in Canada, there are likely to be neighbors or friends readily available who would be willing to speak French with her for a few hours a week. After school and weekends playing at the park could easily stand in for recess. If you did a little legwork to get the contact information for the children she liked the best from her current class, she could probably even continue playing with some of the same children.
I don't know what the homeschooling environment is like where you are, but where I live, the problem for most homeschoolers is not having too few social opportunities, but too many. Most homeschooling groups are mixed-age environments, so it is often easier for gifted children to find a range of peers who can each meet some of their social needs.
If French and recess are all that is standing in the way of homeschooling, I think that you can find easier and better ways to give her those experiences than having her sit in an admittedly inappropriate classroom day in and day out for years.
Edit: Homeschooling gave us the flexibility to get my son, who also has motor issues and a "spiky profile", among other things, appropriate occupational and physical therapy. We could schedule him for appointments every day of the week, knowing that he wasn't missing anything at school, because school was scheduled around therapy, not the other way around. It also ensured that he would have a learning environment that accommodated his disabilities without having to constantly balance his needs against the needs of 25 other children. I really doubt that he would have been able to make the gains that he has if we had had to work around a standard school schedule and if he had had to learn in a regular grade-level classroom environment.
Last edited by aculady; 07/05/11 09:42 PM.
