Latin is valuable. I was appalled to find that most high school no longer offer it as a language option.
1965 - small town Georgia - 8th grade - prior to integration.
I never knew what the criteria was, but I was placed in
what was called at the time the “accelerated group”.
Which meant we had to take Latin I, Latin II, Algebra I, Algebra II, etc.
I hated it, and would rather have not had the pressure.
But I did not have a voice in the decision.
Later in life, I appreciated it.
50 years later I can still recite:
is, ea, id; eius, eius, eius; eum, eam, id.