Random little question about Latin

[Auspicious]

So, my boyfriend took Latin as a language in high school and he always thought that was unusual (as did I) and that most high schools didn't offer this option. Then someone in his study group mentioned that they had taken Latin and it turned out that fully half of the (small) group had gone to high schools where it was offered as a language. Now he's wondering if this is actually far more common than he thought.

Our high school (hubby and I went to the same) did offer Latin. I don't think that Latin was offered across the district though. We also had Russian as an option. I think those two languages were offered because there were teachers there available to teach it. I think the standard fare for our district was: Spanish, French, German.
Eric took Latin and while it could have been a valuable, rigorous couse -- it was a joke. The teacher was a total push-over who had no control of her classroom. A lot of people took the class for an easy "A". I think Eric took it because it was sometimes a fun class and a lot of his friends were in it. A good example of how bad it was: for a final class project Eric and a friend brought in Roman Meal bread and discussed, uh, how it was Roman and Romans spoke Latin. And yes, he is a doctor today!

[Rapunzel]

Oddly enough, I thought all high schools offered the choices of Latin, Spanish, German, and French to their students. In my school district and the surrounding ones in Dallas/Ft.Worth that was the case. Perhaps it is just a regional thing?

I have to add that there were occasional schools that had the resources to teach Japanese or Russian - but that was not common from my observations.

It wasn't offered in my high school....when you graduate with 44 others, you are lucky to get Spanish and French, both taught by the same teacher who got her job because she was the wife of the high school principal....needless to say my foreign language is lacking.

Si
Oui

[SueC]

That's funny Matt!
We had only Spanish and German in our high school of 600. I took 2 years of Spanish and I think if I were in Spain I could ask for a hamburger or a bathroom, but that's about it!

[mommax3]

I went to a large (540 in my graduating class) high school and they didn't offer Latin, just German, Spanish, and French. I think a few years later they started offering Japanese, though, because our community got a Subaru-Isuzu plant to build there -- on the road known as the "Bataan Memorial Highway", which caused quite a bit of controversy!

Sally

[Meenah]

Yes we had it. My daughter took it for three years in high school, and she tells me now how glad she is that we "encouraged" her to take it.
Luanne

[Michele]

Our high school was pretty big 2200+ people. The offered Spanish, French and German when I started as a fresh....but they cut German during my soph year....so now all they offer is Spanish and French, and I think French is on it's way out as well....then again I am from South Florida, so Spanish is the best option....unless they decided to offer Creole...

Michele

It wasn't offered, but I took 6 years of Spanish, which helped me decipher a lot of the Latin roots. I wish it had been offered--I would have taken it.

No, my high school did not offer Latin . Spanish was offered and that was the foreign language that I chose. It really helped when I moved to Dallas/Ft.Worth and being here in West Palm Beach.