Hi! My son is in a full day Spanish immersion PreK this year. If you're interested in language immersion I would look into it and ask lots of questions. My son has learned LOTS of Spanish this year. His teachers were blown away by his language acquisition and within 6 weeks of school starting said they felt like he was pretty much understanding everything they said. At parent teacher conferences this spring, both his teachers recommended that we move him next year into a gifted school rather than keep him in the language immersion program. They feel like, although he is learning a lot of language, he is still quite bored. Language immersion programs don't have greater depth or accelerated pace for instruction so while he is moving ahead in leaps and bounds the rest of the class is still moving along at a much slower pace. My son is really enjoying learning another language (and the school has an after school Chinese class once a week so he's been taking that as well and loving it also!). I would be sad for him to lose the language if we move him next year, but I do agree that language immersion is not, in itself, a gifted program.
