Do our high schools teach Latin any more? nt

[raccoon]

[kentauros]

1. Probably not,

but I bet it depends on the location of the school, like how educated the area is and whether they have any influence over the school's curriculum.

[surrealAmerican]

2. The one in my town does ...

... but it's a large high school in a big college town.

[JackDragna]

3. My school does.

:)

[name not needed]

4. MIne did, probably still does.

[soleiri]

5. catholic high schools

My son went to an open house for a catholic high school before his freshman year
and one of the languages they offered was Latin.

I think it was for those on the priestly track.

[HopeHoops]

6. My middle daughter (11th grade) is taking Latin this year.

On Edit: Near Harrisburg, PA.

[old mark]

7. I took 2 years of Latin in my catholic HS...They didn't manage to

teach me much of it, however. But they did put me off trying to learn another language for about 25 years.

mark

[UrbScotty]

8. Mine did. Don't know if it still does.

[Iggo]

9. I went to 4 High Schools in the mid- to late 70's.

Only one of them was still teaching Latin, and they were phasing it out.

[Iggo]

16. All four of them taught German, though. (n/t)

[cynatnite]

10. I never went to a high school that did teach it. This was the early 80s, too. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

11. Yes. I wish I'd taken it. It would have helped learning languages and with grammar. nt

[Orsino]

12. Hell, yeah.

Don't visit Latin America if you can't speak the lanaguage.

[brentspeak]

13. Is est mortalitas lingua quod mortalitas academic tractus

[tigereye]

14. one of the women in my book group is a classics PHD

she teaches Latin - kids have it from 6th grade on - they read some heady stuff by the time they are in high school. (it's a prep school, though)

I think it is rather popular again, at least for the past 5-10 years or so.

[Deep13]

15. Some, but very few teach Greek. nt

[applegrove]

17. My high school did. It was one of those rare schools in the city that did. A whole neighbourhood

of kids near my home would all take latin to get into said highschool which was across a boundary for them. I'm not kidding... every child in that neighbourhood took latin in grade 9.

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. A classics professor told me that

classics (ancient Greek and Latin) declined until about 1970 and has since made a comeback, in terms of numbers of students and numbers of teachers. I don't know it that's true or not. If so, I would expect the trend to be seen in high schools as well as colleges and universities.

Somewhere there should be some statistics on this.

[Blue Diadem]

19. Our district did in the 90's. 2 of my kids had Latin class.

The teacher may have retired so I'm not sure if the school system still has it.

The school I went to taught German and French.

[billyclem]

20. Back in the mid-60's mine did, but no longer.

It is a small school, my class of '66 was 55 students. Latin and French were offered, I took three years of Latin and by my senior year the class had dwindled to 2. It is more than just not offering Latin that has changed. The advanced classes in Math, Science, English and the Humanities that made up the then College Prep program are long gone. Extra-curricular activities have been seriously cut-back as have the minor sports.

How have your old high schools faired in those areas?

[nemo137]

21. Our senior English teacher offered an independent study in it.

I didn't take it until college.