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Thu Dec-17-09 03:07 PM
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Do our high schools teach Latin any more? nt |
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Thu Dec-17-09 03:09 PM
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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.
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Thu Dec-17-09 03:20 PM
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2. The one in my town does ... |
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... but it's a large high school in a big college town.
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Thu Dec-17-09 03:23 PM
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Thu Dec-17-09 03:32 PM
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4. MIne did, probably still does. |
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Thu Dec-17-09 04:43 PM
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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.
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Thu Dec-17-09 04:52 PM
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6. My middle daughter (11th grade) is taking Latin this year. |
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Edited on Thu Dec-17-09 04:53 PM by HopeHoops
On Edit: Near Harrisburg, PA.
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Thu Dec-17-09 05:23 PM
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7. I took 2 years of Latin in my catholic HS...They didn't manage to |
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teach me much of it, however. But they did put me off trying to learn another language for about 25 years.
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Thu Dec-17-09 05:52 PM
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8. Mine did. Don't know if it still does. |
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Thu Dec-17-09 05:57 PM
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9. I went to 4 High Schools in the mid- to late 70's. |
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Only one of them was still teaching Latin, and they were phasing it out.
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Thu Dec-17-09 07:52 PM
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16. All four of them taught German, though. (n/t) |
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Thu Dec-17-09 05:59 PM
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10. I never went to a high school that did teach it. This was the early 80s, too. n/t |
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Thu Dec-17-09 06:16 PM
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11. Yes. I wish I'd taken it. It would have helped learning languages and with grammar. nt |
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Thu Dec-17-09 06:47 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-17-09 06:47 PM by Orsino
Don't visit Latin America if you can't speak the lanaguage.
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Thu Dec-17-09 06:52 PM
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13. Is est mortalitas lingua quod mortalitas academic tractus |
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Thu Dec-17-09 07:31 PM
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14. one of the women in my book group is a classics PHD |
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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.
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Thu Dec-17-09 07:48 PM
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15. Some, but very few teach Greek. nt |
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:09 PM
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17. My high school did. It was one of those rare schools in the city that did. A whole neighbourhood |
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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.
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:08 AM
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18. A classics professor told me that |
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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.
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:34 AM
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19. Our district did in the 90's. 2 of my kids had Latin class. |
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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.
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Fri Dec-18-09 04:03 PM
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20. Back in the mid-60's mine did, but no longer. |
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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?
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Fri Dec-18-09 06:05 PM
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21. Our senior English teacher offered an independent study in it. |
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I didn't take it until college.
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