Serious question, some french people might get pissed at me for saying I don't think their language is worth learning, but they will have to deal with it.

Have 3 kids, one is 3 and is going to be starting kindergarten not this year but the next. There is an option where to leave to send her to an elementary school, within the same school district where they will be taught completely in french. They don't start English lessons until the third grade. The schools advises parents to read to, and have the children read in English EVERYDAY however so they obviously will not be stunted in their native language development (If I am going to go through with this I will be hiring an english language tutor for private lessons)

Then in middle school they are integrated with the other elementary schools but they are able to take advanced french classes as part of their program. And then obviously in high school they have the AP french classes and what not.

I love this idea, this is a called a total immersion program. I think it is great for children's development to be coursed so well in a second language. It will literally be like having two native languages, not just able to speak or listen but have a full grasp of the entire language.

The ONLY problem I have with the program is that it is for French... outside of Francophile culture loving and literature, I absolutely see no use for this language.

If this were a Spanish, Mandarin, or even a German program I would fully support it. Actually probably even Portuguese because of Brazil or even Angola on the rise.

I just don't see how the sacrifice of literally learning in a foreign language for the first 6 years of your education is worth it if the language is not worth learning from a economic and geopolitical stand point.

So my children will speak and write in French perfectly, wow, so what are they goign to do with that being American? Move to france and have 75% of their wages taxed by the government? No thanks..

French is even dying in Canada. Immigrants don't learn French, they learn English. And Quebec's attempts at saving it are going to fail.

Any help with this? My wife is in love with the idea, but I suspect it is more of a romantic notion than a practical one...