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My favorite teacher ever was my high school latin teacher. I took latin for 3 years, each class was packed as everyone loved being there. In a public US high sc

• dhosek 9y ago
  Northside College Prep in Chicago has Latin (and my nephews actually took it at the K-8 level in public schools as well). If you read the story, you'll find that many of Foster's former students are teaching Latin, and Santa Monica High School (another public school) is given as an example of where his graduates teach. My local public high school also offers Latin (as does the Catholic high school half a mile down the street). There's been a bit of a renaissance of Latin in the schools of late.
• tzs 9y ago
  One of New York's special public schools not only teaches latin, they require everyone to take four years of it: Brooklyn Latin School [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Latin_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Latin_School
• wyclif 9y ago
  It's increasingly rare. I had 4 years of Latin in HS, in public school (N.B. tax-funded government sponsored school for you non-American readers). I think I was the last student in the school district to do that, because after the teacher retired, who was exceptional, they cut the program from the curriculum.
• jjtheblunt 9y ago
  We had it in Wheaton, Illinois, in public school. Sort of just depends on the school district.