In france it starts when the child is 3, nursery school for three years but it's not an obligation, but really i think it's something like 80% of the kids who go to this school. After, 6 years old kids must be at school or must receive an education, it's 4 years of primary school. After when they are in general 11, it's collège (lower secondary school), four years too, and Lycée (upper secondary school) and FAC (uni). Some years ago, another languages were for the collège, but since some years it started before (just a bit) in some towns, and depends of the academy and the director of the school, but it can start at the nursery school. Now it's current that the children in ce2, (second year of primary school) have at least 1 hour of english per week, the government is apparently trying to do some efforts same for the computer, in France i think it's only 1/3 of the family who have a pc at home so for the internet .......... 1/8 ?? maybe ??? But schools with proper computer room is more than rare, more often you have 2 or 3 pc's for a class, which is 28-30 kids !!

For the kids who have problem about learning or behaviour, we have something like "psychological help" it's free and it's also a sort of surveillance. Too more children in my opinion are sended to the orthophonist (not sure about the english name) to speak better, it's amazing how much, it's ridiculous, there's something else under this i guess.
Kids like mine who have problems because of their IQ are sended to private schools, we have to pay for these, the pedagogy is different, but it's still a "normal school", not like these very select ones with kids with IQ not under 160, James is not at this point ... not yet. Once again, we are helped by a psychologist to see the evolution and to find the best way for him.
The basis will stay the same like in the other elementary school, french maths history sports (just 1 hours x 2 in a week in general) but he will have more english, not just because he's bilingual but also because he needs something more to "feed" his hunger of learning, and paint and more of everything + some things he's gonna choose (music - chests club etc ...) And the discipline is .. how can i say .... more surveillance but more psychology too, very close to the kids and with the parents too, which i think is very important beacuse in our public schools, i you have the chance to be with a good teacher it's great but if it's not the case, there's nothing you can do ! it's getting worse and worse here i think!
OK i'll stop, if you want to know something, let me know