@everephebe – In many schools in Germany students start with English in 5th grade and then have to choose between French and Latin in 7th grade. Most parents think that their kids should go along with French, but here they come thousands of teachers many between 40 – 65 years old who start crying, stop, don’t be stupid, a good higher education requires Latin and so forth. Those teachers usually see no problem when students don’t know the difference between DNA and RNA, but heaven forbid, if they haven’t read Choerilus of Samos or Mimnermus of Colophon or Marcus Tullius Cicero the future of our country is at stake.
The set of relevant knowledge seems to be frozen what people thought in 1955.
Some Latin teacher even got doubts about English being the number 1 global language.
Here’s what my kids learned: English, French, Spanish. My daughter also learned some Russian and Japanese. Don’t tell your Latin teacher.