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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids don’t need special skills or talents to be in immersion. Where did all the PPs get that idea?? My kids started in immersion in K. The point is that kids pick up language much, much more easily when young, whether those kids are fast, slow, whatever. 
And it is developmentally normal for a kid to read later than age 5. Not every kid is ready to read at age 5. [/quote]

I don’t think kids need special skills for immersion. The point is that OP’s child seems to below average already in his native language. As a parent, I’d want my kid to work on his English literacy skills more than enter a language immersion program. [/quote]

This.  Learning another language is great but not at the expense of the essentials which is reading and math.[/quote]

I mean, in many parts of the world, learning multiple languages from the start of school is the norm for all kids. Not something only for advanced kids. Only in the US do we think of it as something special/extra. I’ve got a child with dyslexia in an immersion program. It is not holding her back. [/quote]

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