Wow, Wendy, that’s a provincial point of view I rarely see represented here on Free Republic. Most Europeans by necessity speak three or four languages with ease, and having a basic foundation in Latin and Greek makes learning English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian much easier, as they are all rooted in those early languages. Language skills make learning any language, including Chinese or Arabic, much easier, too. Why so negative?
The posting was almost starting to sound intelligent until I got to the point about wanting to foist Greek and Latin on kids. I mean, if I was a Greek kid and the only language being taught in school was Greek, I’d move.... There are enough LIVE languages available to study that it should be possible to get whatever side benefits you hope to get by studying live/real ones. You can get a good enough feel for IE grammer by studying Russian and at the end of the day you have something useful.