This is a huge topic of debate for a lot of people these days. I think we have pretty much decided on st Theresa's french immersion for d. Love the idea of walking / driving him to school and also they have the only string program in the city... so if he keeps the violin thing up that will be nice too!
From a parent perspective I look at it like this. If they go into early french immersion and they struggle or hate it or whatever... then they can always switch to mainstream English. But it doesn't swing the other way. From an ESL teacher perspective I simply feel the sooner the better!
There is of course late immersion and late french immersion has the advantage of the child being able to make the choice for themselves.. taking the decision making pressure off the parents lol
Oh and it doesn't hurt that statistically french immersion students on the average have demonstrated to perform better. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-004-x/200406/6923-eng.htm
We will have to sign d up this spring. Hopefully it's not a big issue to get him into the immersion program. I have heard some schools parents go to line up like 5am.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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