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05/17/08
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Vail DeCapite, 16, a sophomore at Severna Park High School, loves Latin.
He took Latin I this year and had planned to take the second level next year to satisfy his graduation requirement of two years of a foreign language.
But now Vail can't keep studying it because cuts to Severna Park's teaching staff fell on the Latin program. Next year only Latin I will be offered, and the 23 students who signed up for Latin II will have to find a new language to love. "People call it a dead language, but you'd be surprised how intertwined it is with the world," he said. "None of the student body knew the Latin...
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