# Poll: Did you learn Latin in high school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765 "2004-06-29T20:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/21 "2004-06-29T22:37:31Z")
> [@Steve Wright](#): > > Do you need any data from funny foreign countries? I did four years of Latin (1978-1981) at grammar school in southern England … Well, I **am** accepting replies from Americans, so I guess England is okay, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/22 "2004-06-29T22:50:33Z")
I studied Latin from 9 to 18 - took it to A level. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/23 "2004-06-29T23:01:22Z")
(1) Yes - I did Latin for all 6 years of high school. (2) I finished high school in 1981. (3) I attended a private Catholic boys’ school (run by the Jesuits) in Sydney, Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/24 "2004-06-29T23:07:54Z")
1. Yes. Only once in Grade 10. 2. 2002 3. Scarborough, ON I think it was the only school in Scarborough and possibly Toronto that offered it. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/25 "2004-06-29T23:10:32Z")
1. No, it wasn’t offered 2. 1983 3. Eastern Minnesota, metro area ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/26 "2004-06-29T23:31:29Z")
1. Yes, in 9th and 10th grades, at a Jesuit High School 2. 1989 3. Baltimore, MD I only attended school there for two years (I just wasn’t cut out for Catholic school…) and then I attended public school in Columbia, MD, where it was offered but I chose not to partake. (At that point I’d also been studying French since the Fourth Grade, and decide that it would be a bit more useful to continue that.) Picker ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/27 "2004-06-29T23:32:43Z")
Yes (four years, plus two in college). 1965 Tacoma, WA ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/28 "2004-06-29T23:48:04Z")
1. No (not offered) 2. 1989 3. Duluth, GA But I did take a year’s worth at Georgia State… Hardest classes I ever took in my life - ironic, given my nick. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/29 "2004-06-29T23:52:19Z")
Yes, 1961, California ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/30 "2004-06-29T23:52:19Z")
All four years of high school 1995 Public school, Toledo, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/31 "2004-06-30T00:03:36Z")
Freshman year in high school[wish I’d done all 4 years] 1968 Catholic school, Philadelphia PA ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/32 "2004-06-30T00:19:22Z")
Not only did I learn Latin, I learned classical Greek as well. I graduated in 1998 from a high school in Columbus, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/33 "2004-06-30T00:19:39Z")
Not offered - options were Spanish or German 1984 NW Chicago suburbs ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/34 "2004-06-30T00:24:45Z")
1. Did you learn Latin in high school? No (I wish now it had been an option) 2. In what year did you graduate high school? 1986 3. Where did you go to high school (region, city and country is fine, I don’t need the exact name)? Dodge City, KS ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/35 "2004-06-30T00:25:09Z")
1. No 2. 1996 3. Balaton, Minnesota (very small school; our only choice was French) ---
**Author:** ![WCStyles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7cd45c/32.png) [@WCStyles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WCStyles)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/36 "2004-06-30T00:29:10Z")
Yes, in eighth, tenth and eleventh grade. Would have continued in ninth grade, but we were in Panama and Spanish was the only language class offered. 1987 Ft. Leavenworth, KS and Fairfax Co., VA ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/37 "2004-06-30T00:30:42Z")
_Took_ latin for two years in high school. _Learned???_ Well, maybe a little. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1968. Aced both years. Had a very cool teacher. Very funny (he was a friend of Art Buchwald and had a similar sense of humor) and reasonbly progressive. He thought learning verb conjugation by rote was a waste of time for the average student, so we _read_ latin texts for two years and translated for the class. Got the most out of leaning latin roots that way. The two years were fun. _Perfecti sunt_. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/38 "2004-06-30T00:36:43Z")
1. Yes, although taking a language was not actually required at my school, the guidance couselors rarely let you get away with not taking them. Our choices were Fench, Spainish, or Latin. I took it for three years (started my sophomore year.) 2. 2000 3. Northern VT. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/39 "2004-06-30T00:39:49Z")
1. Yes, one semester 2. 1984 3. Illinois All i remember is puero is boy. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765/40 "2004-06-30T00:41:38Z")
1.) Yes, for one year (my best friend did for four). 2.) 2001. 3.) Elgin, Illinois (northwest suburb of Chicago). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-did-you-learn-latin-in-high-school/252765.md?page=3)