The benefits of being bilingual are just so huge that we just cannot ignore them anymore. All the research that has been coming out in the last years has proven that a bilingual brain is a lot more flexible. They are better multi-taskers. It makes kids even more critical in their thinking. It is the cognitive advantages are huge. They translate to their reading skills. They even are turning out to have better math and science skills. The schools that have bilingual programs like, dual immersion, are actually outscoring other schools. Not only that, but the benefits go out through old age. Right now, it is proving that it is actually delaying the onset of Alzheimer's.