Poll: Did you learn Latin in high school?

In My Humble Opinion
1

If you could be so kind as to respond to these questions.

  1. Did you learn Latin in high school?
  2. In what year did you graduate high school?
  3. Where did you go to high school (region, city and country is fine, I don’t need the exact name)?

This is part curiosity, part solving a disagreement. Thank you for answering!

2

I had two years of high school Latin. Graduated in 1960 from a school in Kansas.

3
  1. Yes, in grades 9 & 10 (public school)
  2. 1965
  3. Anchorage, AK
  4. I was terrible at it, but it improved my English grades immeasurably.
4

  1. No

  2. 1997

  3. U.S.A. - Long Island, NY

5

I took it my senior year - 1999 - in Monroe, Michigan.

6
  1. Yes (Jr. and Sr. year)
  2. 2000
  3. Houston, Texas
7

  1. Nope, even though I went to a Catholic high school.

  2. 1991

  3. Chattanooga, TN

8

Latin was required for all 8th graders. Once you got into high school you could choose French, Spanish or Latin. I took Latin. I had had five years of Latin total by the time I graduated. That was 1999, Memphis, Tennessee.
-Lil

9

Yes
2002
Milwaukee, WI

It was an elective.

10

Yes

1972

4 years, two years at a prep school in Philly and two years at a public high school in San Diego. (Guess which two years I got more out of?)

11

  1. No, it wasn’t even offered. I would have taken it if it had been.

  2. 1987

  3. Shingle Springs (Sierra Foothills area), CA

12

I took two years of Latin at Redwood Highschool, in Larkspur, California, in 1992 and 1993. I graduated in 1994. My school required either three years in one language, or four years in two languages to graduate, and the offered languages were French, Spanish (which I also took, in '91 and '92), and Latin. There was only one Latin teacher, who was a bit elderly, and I doubt the school would have gone out of their way to recruit another one when he retired. If he did retire: might still be teaching there, for all I know.

Despite the classes I took, today I can speak neither Latin nor Spanish. I much gooder at English, tho.

13

  1. 3 years - 8th, 9th, and 10th grade.

  2. Graduated in 1990

  3. Private (but not Catholic) school in La Canada, CA

14

Yes. The nun in question was retired, and at that point, Latin was an elective, not a required course; up until she retired in the early 70s, four years were required.

1983

An Ursuline school in the States (Delaware).

Despite my best efforts, I learnt it – my dissertation was a translation of a 9th century Latin verse biography, 3,000 lines. (I also took Latin all 4 years of uni, and 3 terms at the University of Minnesota, and then 4 or 5 terms at UVa; also mediaeval Latin whilst at the grad level. One of my PhD subfields was Latin palaeography. More than you wanted to know, prolly…

15

I suppose I should add that Redwood highschool is a public school, although it’s in Marin County, which is one of the more insanely affluent areas of the country.

16

Do you need any data from funny foreign countries? I did four years of Latin (1978-1981) at grammar school in southern England …

17

No, but it was offered.
2000
My old high school is in a small town near Buffalo NY.

18
  1. No
  2. '86
  3. Opal/L. A., CA
19

[ol]
[li]Yes[/li][li]84[/li][li]I didn’t graduate from the same place I took the Latin, so it doesn’t relate.[/li][/ol]

20

Yes. Graduated high school in suburban Philadelphia in 1975.

Our freshman year, we had to take one-quarter each of German, French, Spanish and Latin, then decide which language we wanted to keep taking.