Dead language alive at Monmouth-Roseville
Saturday, May 20, 2006
BY CIGI ROSS
The Register-MailA poster reading "Latin didn't fall with Rome" hung in a room at the top of the stairs on Monmouth-Roseville High School's third floor.
A map of Rome hung on the wall underneath.
Five students sat in plastic chairs behind wooden desks looking over white papers that had been marked in red over black ink.
Brian Tibbets, a lean 32-year-old in black pants and a white- and red-striped shirt, leaned against his desk at the front of the room, going over answers from a quiz with the juniors in his Latin III class.
Tibbets took over the Latin program at Monmouth three years ago after it was saved by a petition from parents and students who supported the program. Now, 76 of the school's 550 students are enrolled in the program.
Saving Latin
In 1999, there were only six freshman enrolled in the Latin program at Monmouth High School. The school board was ready to close the program, but several parents and students did not want to see it go.
"We begged for one more year," said Christine Ayers, a mother three, all of whom have taken Latin in Monmouth.
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