Should sixth formers get to learn latin

I think they should, even thoguh it isn't an option.

 

I think there should be a japanese course but there isn't. In general it varies from college to college, some colleges may do photography while others don't. Maybe it isn't popular enough to warrant the need for it.

 

at our school, for thursday options (last hour on a thursday) you can chose Japanese Studies but im not sure if you learn Japanese. You can learn russian though....

 

Sith formers? As is the sixth grade?

 

yeah, well sixth formers in the UK as in AS and A2 level exams, not sure if it has a different meaning in the USA

 

Ah. well in my 6th year in elementary school we just learnt French. Latin and it's conjugations can be unbelievably difficult at times, and even university students discover how much they hate their lives while taking said course. If you're able to do it I applaud you immensely. The only issue I see with it being established in the classroom setting is the learning curve. If a majority of students can't do it, then it's pointless to bring an entire class into it. It would be nice for enrichment programs within the school to implement it, but then again it all depends on the school system. And seeing as the UK people have brought it up here it's possible, as your school system owns.

 

Sixth form are for people generally aged 16-18. It's where you tend to specialise into certain subjects, you normally pick from 3-5 subjects, it's the step before university.

In general schools give you a choice of French, Spanish and Germany. But in our school recently you can take up Chinese.

 

Bah, course your confusing and superior schooling in the Uk. I could've sworn he was referring to sixth grade, being 13 and all.

 

yep, im in fifth year atm and am doing french and german for GCSEs, and im doing maths physics IT and business studies for A-level. then i have the option to drop one of them for upper-sixth (as upper and lower are seperate qualifications). there is a school near me where they teach latin and french from first year and german can be chosen in third....all very confusing

 

Latin...I took Latin in fourth and fifth grade (I.e. ages nine to ten for fourth and ten to eleven for fifth), and I must say, it was a really interesting and fun class...Even if I hated the teacher. I also found that Latin was easy, for me, at least.

You definitely should be able to take Latin. It helps later in life.

But for me, it ruined Harry Potter, since (Spoiler?) J.K. Rowling does ALL of her spells and character names using Latin, I.e. Canis Lupus (Lupis? It's been a while) means wolf, and Professor Lupin was a werewolf (XD), and in the Prizoner to Azkaban videogame, the spell "Carpe Retractum" literally means "Sieze and Retract"...And that's exactly what it did.

-Sigh- Oh well, I was never a big HP fan anyway, I read two of the books and played two of the games and gave up.