Are bilingual children able to integrate a easily into a monolingual school system?
Yes, bilingual children are able to integrate easily into monolingual system. Our curriculum is challenging because our students learn the same curriculum both French and American children learn, and they do it in two languages. Consequently: • The ISB day is slightly longer than most American schools. • The order in which children are presented with some subjects occasionally differs from the order some subjects are presented in American schools. (For example, ISB children are introduced to writing cursive and doing geometry earlier than their American counterparts, but perhaps they learn the order of the planets later. ISB children see other students assimilate successfully all the time. International Schools by definition have a certain amount of turnover, so not only are students aware of the challenges of a new environment, they are more empathetic to the plight of new students. ISB students have been accepted at many of the area’s most prestigious schools including The Winsor Sch
