Chinese Immersion Program

In class we watched a video about the Chinese Immertion Program. I think it is a very good program and more schools should be doing it and more people should be educated on how it woks because many of the people that are agianst the program do not really seem like they fully understand hw it works and what it does. Many of the people against it in the video thought that children in America should just learn how to speak english because they live in America, but they do not seem to understand that we have to be able to communicate with people outside of our own country so we can better work together on things. People that are against the Chinese Immersion Program also think that the kids in the program will be behind in school because they think that they are learning how to do things in english. What those people do not know is that the kids are not fulling behind and are fully able to speak english and can read and write in english to just as fast as the students who are just learning english, I also learned in the video that the kids that are bilingual actually are using more of their brain. What the parents that are against the program do not realize is that the kids that are bilingual will be able to find jobs really easily because many jobs are looking for people who can speak different languages. After watching the video I really wished I had been in one of those programs when I was little because I am now just trying to learn Spanish and I have learned that once you turn 13 it is pretty much impossible to become fully fluent in another language.