Yes! My moronic school offered only Spanish and French. I took a year of French (a collosal waste; I eventually gave up*) and my brother took Spanish. He found it useful when he worked construction during the summers (talking to the cheap laborers), but other than that it seemed to be utterly useless.
Latin, I have found, is incredibly useful in the areas of law, medicine, science and religion. Unfortunately my school district was more interested in producing community college drop-outs and washed-up high school athletes than they were in producing doctors, lawyers, scientists or theologians. I always regretted never having the chance to take a classical language in school.
* Bitter irony intended.
yeah I know what you mean, my mother took latin when she went to high school and i developed an interest, but my school doesn't have it so the most interesting language to me after that was spanish. this is stupid. but imagine what a sophistical sounding society we would have if we were to use latin.
i wish i could take latin.