Over here where I live they have bi-lingual kindergardens and then there are many bi-lingual schools where they actually learn certain subjects in a different language (Biology will be taught in French for example) and they will even take the A-Level equivalent in their own language, English, French & Italian (or whatever the languages are at the school) so they also have qualifications for the different countries. But, if they don't do amazingly in them, it doesn't matter because that's just an extra so (apparently) they don't feel any extra pressure.
I wish I had that when growing up in England rather than a lazy French teacher who was just reading out of a text book and teaching us nothing!
I struggle to speak the basics of the languages where I am whereas my partner speaks 6 fluent languages. It makes us Brits look pathetic.