Online GCSE - any suggested providers?

[GarethM]

Just now, peds said:

Latin was available at my secondary when I was young, just a run of the mill local school for local people. 

 

Podex perfectus es and caput tuum in ano es are the only phrases I remember. Might be spelled wrong.

And when was that ?.

 

Most teachers under 60 will not have studied Latin.

[Doug Tait]

7 minutes ago, peds said:

caput tuum in ano es

 

School moto?

[peds]

33 minutes ago, GarethM said:

And when was that ?.

 

Most teachers under 60 will not have studied Latin.

I was at school in the 90s. 

 

I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

[peds]

31 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

School moto?

 

General life advice. 

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, peds said:

I was at school in the 90s. 

 

I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

Are you intentionally thick or just a well practiced act?.

 

If you were in school in the 90s you are 50s, of which all your teachers would have retired 25 years ago. (That's 30years ago+average age of teacher 40+)

 

I'll put it simply, why don't you see if you're local school does it as the only ones are generally private grammar.

[Mick Dempsey]

A few years back I bumped into my old Latin teacher from 1977 ish.

We had a chat in a cafe about stuff, he was nearing retirement, he said he had lots of students enrolling for Latin classes.

[GarethM]

Without dating Mick's conversation, must've been 2000 as his teacher would be in his 90s now.

 

The point I was making was we need the full list of GCSEs being taken as 4 including two compulsory is a bit low.

[Mick Dempsey]

4 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Without dating Mick's conversation, must've been 2000 as his teacher would be in his 90s now.

 

The point I was making was we need the full list of GCSEs being taken as 4 including two compulsory is a bit low.

No it was about 7 years ago.

He had just qualified, we were his first job in 77.

Anyway, I’m digressing from the point of the thread.

Edited May 4 by Mick Dempsey

[Steven P]

Going back to the beginning, I might be wrong but the option is history OR Computer Science / Latin, not take 4 GCSEs in total. The Boy likes all 3 of them.

 

Remembering back to how it worked when I was at School the subjects were in blocks, A, B, C, D.. ..or whatever and you could pick 1 from each block. Not every subject was in every block, I suspect the same applies here.... so History is in the same block as Latin / Computer Science, cannot take all 3 together. So how to do a history course outside of School.

 

 

 

Latin: which other languages you learn at school are not so important, French at 16 years old is fine but might be at 50 you work in Spain - however the ability to apply what learnt then is more important and help you learn in future life. Latin shares a lot of stuff with European languages, word structure, common words etc (Romans did that for us), so I would say probably as useful as any other language,

Edited May 4 by Steven P

[topchippyles]

19 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

No it was about 7 years ago.

He had just qualified, we were his first job in 77.

Anyway, I’m digressing from the point of the thread.

I think latin is used by doctors in some capacity.