[Nepeta]

8th grade Latin class

How times have changed. I doubt if one in a thousand middle schools even have such a class today.

American kids can hardly speak or write their own mother tongue nowadays.

This school still has Latin--it continues to be a REQUIRED subject there. It is a public high school (6 grades in one building) but for those who live outside of the city and who qualify, the city charges tuition.

[Steely Tom]

How times have changed. I doubt if one in a thousand middle schools even have such a class today.

This school still has Latin--it continues to be a REQUIRED subject there.

My daughter started taking Latin in middle school. Last year, in fact, when she was in eighth grade.

Now she's a high school freshman. We got her first report card for the year a couple of weeks ago. All her grades were 90 or above (we are a little disappointed with that) except for one: she got a 100% in Latin!. On her report card! For the first quarter!

She seems to have a flair for Latin. I'm very proud of that.

She also is fluent in Chinese, having spent four or five summers there with her grandparents and aunts and cousins.

[Windflier]

This school still has Latin--it continues to be a REQUIRED subject there.

What school is that? It sounds like one of the 'one in a thousand' I referred to upthread.

My point was, there was a time in America when something like an 8th grade Latin class was commonplace. Not so, today. It's just another sign of decay in our country.