What Happened to Latin Among the Romans?

Able Media salutes Douglas Domingo-Foraste

What Happened to Latin Among the Romans?

by Douglas Domingo-Forasté
California State University Long Beach
Original text © 2005 Douglas Domingo-Forasté

This quite deceptively titled paper does not discuss Latin linguistic change. Instead I examine the experience of Los Angeles High and one popular perception of Latin teaching from 1971 to suggest ways colleges and universities can help restore Latin in public secondary schools that formerly taught it by the use of cooperative education. I propose a partnership of schools of post-secondary Classics departments and public high schools to return Latin to schools with traditions of teaching the language.