*nods* I'm in a similar bind in one respect. The fact that French Immersion exists means that there is no pressure on non-French Immersion schools to teach French for fluency. Schools like the one where I teach can truck along on their own with no oversight or help for their French programs unless the teacher seeks out that help. This means that if I want my children to learn fluent French - something that is completely within the power of a well-trained French teacher teaching French for forty minutes a day - I have to violate my own principles and send them to French Immersion.

The choices made at an individual level for one's own children are what they are, and I don't fault individual parents for taking advantage of the choices that are out there. I fault the system (and often, those who make decisions for the system from outside it) for being bad enough that they'd feel the need to do so and unresponsive to their concerns. "If you don't like it, go somewhere else" is a really bad mantra for a public school.