Reply #48: I went to an inner city "Academic Magnet Classical Academy"

[Coastie for Truth]

and we had Spanish starting in 3rd Grade (and this was in the late 1940's) - and my observation is that the neural synapse programming of becoming bilingual and learning real math aids academic achievement.

My kids went to quadra-lingual parochial schools (Schechter: English, French, Spanish, Hebrew) - and they did very well in senior high school and at "Public Ivies."

I don't think the specific languages matter - French, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, whatever.