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[quote=Anonymous]yes but what's your control group?  my little nephew is still wailing occasionally in his all-English wonderful preS program.  He has good days and bad.

Nothing is seamless, nothing is perfect.  What I'm saying that is the educational experience lasts 9 years for elementary and about 1/9 of the way into it your child has mostly settled into the routine of learning in another language.  By next year at this time she/he won't blink at Spanish.

Many many kids, native speakers alike, "prefer" English to Spanish--- Spanish is hard because we live in an English-dominant country.  Well a lot of kids "prefer" days with PE not music, or "prefer" math over reading.  And so what?  It doesn't mean that you don't just follow through and have the kids exposed to as much as possible.  Learning in two languages is a gift, and it also makes an ordinary instructional day into a great day of learning-- at the very least, even in the most boring, conventional day during the year (and there will be these days), your child is forging synapses in his/her brain that will last a lifetime.  The brain literally expands with bilingualism.

I don't get the need to have school, and life, be "easy." Life is not easy, middle school is really not easy.  Your kids will adapt, especially if you are enthusiastic about the program.  And eventually they'll see what a gift two languages really is. [/quote]

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