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[quote=Anonymous]OP - Imagine your child takes Latin, falls in love with it, and becomes a Latin/Classics professor teaching at one the countries top universities?  Or he becomes an advisor to the Vatican?  Or he becomes an American History expert and translates never before translated letters written by the American founding fathers in the 1700s to one another than changes the way the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution? (yes, there are letters the founders wrote to each other in Latin that have never been translated -- UVA has a project on this that my DC's high school helped out on)  And imagine all this makes him happy.

Now imagine he is forced to take Spanish, thinks its ok, hears that colleges think it is better to get through an AP language which he can do more easily with Spanish than Latin given his prior experience, but he never discovers Latin.   Maybe he finds another great career he loves; maybe not.   A parent should challenge the child and present arguments for and against these sort of choices, but at the end of the day as long as a teenagers choice is safe and reasonable, substituting your judgment for his seems like a slippery slope.   Should he ask the girl to the prom who comes from a wealthier family with connections but he doesn't like as much as another girl he admires and  makes his heart throb because his mom thinks the former may get him ahead in life?  
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