11 Comments

  1. Lorra B. on August 30, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Well, we wouldn’t want to injure the delicate sensibilities of our students by making them learn things that they deem difficult! After all, that wouldn’t be PC!!



    • quinersdiner on August 31, 2016 at 6:04 am

      Heaven forbid!



      • Lorra B. on August 31, 2016 at 10:40 am

        😉



  2. abcinsc on August 31, 2016 at 5:11 am

    Believe it or not- I actually took English, Latin, Greek, French and Math in 9th grade at Boston Latin School in the ’50s.



    • quinersdiner on August 31, 2016 at 6:06 am

      That is amazing. I took 4 years of Latin in high school in public schools in Dsm ’67 to ’71.



      • abcinsc on August 31, 2016 at 6:14 am

        I liked Latin. It taught me English grammar. Almost forgot -my Math teacher was accused of being a Communist (McCarthy era, I guess).
        Have a great day.



      • abcinsc on August 31, 2016 at 6:18 am

        “Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est”



        • quinersdiner on August 31, 2016 at 6:40 am

          Well said, Julius.



  3. d. knapp on August 31, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    I teach nursing to adult students. They cant understand the medical abbreviations AT ALL. The bad part is that they could if they would have taken ANY Latin based foreign based language. French or Spanish would have helped. I took Years of French grades 8-11 and college as well. The Spanish I have learned due to necessity in my work in nursing uses many of the terms being abbreviated. Latin? They dont even take ANY foreign languages.It’s so sad. I hear people WITH DEGREES that do not even speak ENGLISH properly. I don’t even mean they don’t use “whom” properly or at all. I mean they say things like, “My fiance name is…” Good heavens! They can’t use a singular possessive noun or pronoun properly. The students often do not know the 3’s multiplications ( a basis for conversion of ounces to ml’s. There are 30 ml’s to an ounce so dividing by 3 and then adding 0 (mult. by 10) is needed. What is being taught now is the socialist progressive agenda. All academics are sent home for the parents to handle. If the parents graduated in the last 20 years or never graduated, they are not able to adequately able to educate the kids.



    • quinersdiner on August 31, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      Great perspectives, but really depressing. Nonetheless, we need to hear the truth. Thanks for writing.



  4. d. knapp on August 31, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    I was taking French and Russian in 8th grade 1981.