Abstract
Foreign language bilingual education has been common in many countries all over the world for many years after the Quebec issue in the 1970s. However, after all these years, bilingual education still remains as a criticized way of education. This research essay examined the most significant criticism by summarizing it into seven common misconceptions of the bilingual education schooling system in Spain in general education English-Spanish 1st—12th grade. A lot of criticism has been directed towards the differences between regular mainstream classes and bilingual classes especially in Primary education. This paper looks at seven commonly addressed issues. The paper especially focuses on Primary education but most revision matters also relate to secondary and even higher education. Special interest is paid to cognitive, social, economic, mode of bilingual education, role of the immigrant students and parents’ attitudes. The conclusion leads to the understanding that English-Spanish bilingual education is not pernicious but, on the contrary, benefits the cognitive a linguistic development of most school children. 
 Keywords: bilingual education; misconceptions; CLIL; immersion; cognitive; socio-economic;
Highlights
1.1 Beginnings of Bilingual Education Program in Spain - The British Council programThe first steps towards establishing a bilingual program in Spain were taken in 1996 when it was introduced in Spain
The authors focused on the written competence of students from Bilingual and Monolingual Programs in Secondary Education; namely, it centred on writing skills of two groups of students from State Compulsory Secondary Education – one that studied through Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and another that studied English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
The authors reported that while “no significant difference between the science scores of primary school students who had studied in the L1 and those who had studied in the L2 as part of a CLIL program” were observed, in secondary education the advantage was on the side of CLIL students where “public CLIL students significantly outperformed both public and charter non-CLIL learners”
Summary
1.1 Beginnings of Bilingual Education Program in Spain - The British Council program. A cooperation between the British Council and Spanish Ministry of Education and Science led to establishment of 43 State Primary Bilingual schools with over 1200 students, in 10 provinces of Spain In 2009 there was a decrease in the number of State Secondary schools adhered to the program, which has been explained as a result of establishing the new bilingual programs in various provinces of Spain and consequent change from the original to the new programs By so doing we state the main problems into headings and our rebuttal These criticisms are mostly cognitive, social, and economic
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