It is also one of the few schools to offer Latin.

East offers three foreign languages for study; French, Spanish, and Latin.

As a working-class comp kid who wasn't offered Latin, I tried to self-teach a couple of years ago.

What happens when students move - as so many children from poor or troubled families do - and attend schools that do not offer Latin?

This requires extra initiative, however, because many non-gymnasium schools do not offer Latin.

Garfield remains one of the last two public schools in the Seattle metropolitan area that offers Latin.

"We had not offered Latin for 10 years, but in the last few years, there has been increased interest."

Very few state schools offer Latin, as an option or otherwise.

If you believe "most" state secondary schools offer Latin, you're presumably not actually spending a lot of time in state schools.

And some enterprising elementary schools were offering Latin to some 4,300 children as of 1994, up from 2,000 in 1990.