Poll: Did you learn Latin in high school?

In My Humble Opinion
61

Latin and Greek. Graduated from a Jesuit school in New York, New York in 1977.

62

Yes - I took 4 years of Latin in high school, and 2 years in college.
Graduate in 1982.
Went to high school in Northern Virginia.

My high school Latin teacher just retired, and was, by nearly all accounts, the best Latin teacher in the state.

63

Yes.
1979.
Southern England, UK.

64

No.
2004.
Gulfport, Mississippi.

65
  1. No, not offered.
  3. San Diego County, California (the “poor school”)
66

Yes (all four years).

Indianapolis, Indiana - township school (we have nine school districts).

67

Yes
1968
NE Ohio

68
  1. Yes - 1 year required in my high school
  2. 1985
  3. Catholic high school in southeastern Pennsylvania
69
  1. Yes - 4 years (+ 3 years in middle school and 4 in college + 3 of Greek = Classics major)
  2. 2000
  3. Suburban Chicagoland
70

Grades 7 and 8 at Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario.
Nadda at Highschool, from which I graduated in 1979.
Another year at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

71

Whoops, had a brain fart. It was grades 6 and 7, not 8.

72

I) Yes, two years
II) 1988
III) Conyers, Georgia (Atlanta suburbs)

73

  1. Yes (9th, 10th and 11th grades)

  2. 1977

  3. Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

74

Given that others have raised the subject, I’ll add that I also did Ancient Greek.

75
  1. No, it wasn’t offered at my high school.
  2. 1997
  3. Iowa

But I didn’t let this lack of Latin stop me, and I am today a PhD candiate in Classical Languages, so no harm done! I am impressed at how many people have had Latin, especially recently (they always tell us HS Latin isn’t dying, but i figure they were just trying to kep our hopes up) but I suppose too someone who did take Latin is more likely to read this thread.

76
  1. No
  2. 2003
  3. Sacramento County, CA
77

Yes, three years of it.

Graduated 1988.

Exeter Area High School, Exeter, NH (thanks Miss Niver!)

78

http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004/062004/06142004/1395540

A link to the story on my Latin teacher in high school retiring. She really was so good that she got coverage of her retirement in the newspaper.

79

You can’t escape me, Laur. :slight_smile:

  1. No
  2. 1996
  3. Suburb of New York City

I did, however, know plenty of people who had four years of high school Latin from competitive private schools. They dusted me in my first semester of college. By the second semester, all of us (including others who had no background in Latin) were on the same level.

My teachers told me that this is perfectly normal and happens year after year.

80
  1. yes (is anyone who’s answering no even going to respond?). I took three years of it. By the time I was finished, I was able to translate Virgil’s Aeneid.
  2. 1998
  3. Westport, CT