There are a few types of people who are attracted to classes on dead languages:

Those interested in the intersection of something like Latin and English - or the “maybe it will improve your SAT score” camp.
Those thinking it’ll improve their chances at learning other Romance languages in the future - or the “hopelessly optimistic” camp (that was my camp)
People who are really interested in Catholicism

I only included that third category because of Jason, because to me, he never seemed particularly interested in anything else.  In another time, in another place, Jason would have been some kind of monastic theologian having whispered conversations with other monks over desks littered with parchment paper.  But instead, he grew up 15 miles from Alabama like the rest of us, so he ended up in Ms. McAfferty’s Latin class.

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