We love our public school (DS has ADHD + language processing disorder, waitlisted for CAPD testing, and DD has anxiety). Mind you, it's not typical, even though it's public. It's small (320ish kids) with a French Immersion stream and a Montessori stream.
My kids are in French (even my language disorder son :-). Language immersion can be tough on any kid, so the ones enrolled are either clever or more supported (although I must stress that sometime the brightest and most supported kids leave language immersion because it's just not the right fit).
Because there are curriculum objectives that must be met, regardless of the stream, the French kids are watched closely for signs of struggle and intervention comes quickly. My chess and math whiz (but language "crippled") son sees a speech pathologist, a TA and an LA teacher. He's learning (reading English ahead of schedule, actually) and he loves school, even though his stream is technically his weakest area.
AWESOME school.
Here's an interesting aside: DD9, in the language immersion stream, made the gifted math program for grade 5. There are only four from the school (due to district financial constraints), and three of those four are from her French Immersion class.
Last edited by CCN; 06/25/12 09:09 PM.
