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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1858045, member: 19463&quot;]Latin was my college major (Greek minor).&nbsp; My intent was to teach ancient history on the college level but there was that draft problem and by the time I got out of the Army, all that remained was the ancient coin hobby.&nbsp; I never went back to grad school.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Latin is taught in schools - at least good schools.&nbsp; My 6th grade grandson is taking Latin I in public school.&nbsp; 7-10 years ago, I gave coin programs at some high schools for a group called Ancient coins for Education which supports the idea of Latin in the schools.&nbsp; One of my schools was Collegiate School in Richmond VA which is the alma mater of the Sea Hawks quarterback.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Wilson" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Wilson" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Wilson</a></p><p>He would have been in the school when I was there but I don&#039;t know if he took Latin so I don&#039;t know if I met him.&nbsp; They had a lot of kids in Latin but I only met the advanced classes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I met a couple kids back in that day that were in 7th year Latin (which was really independent study since there was never more than two in a year beyond Latin IV).&nbsp; I never really liked the language but it came in handy for studying ancient history which I loved and majoring in it got me out of having to take all those modern history classes that a History major required.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I remain of the opinion that a high school background in Latin will come in handy when students are taking the College Boards.&nbsp; The vocabulary built in Latin conveys to English.&nbsp; For math, you are on your own.&nbsp; Even multiplying in Roman numerals is a bear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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