Latin Lovers

atin teachers in New Zealand are a bit like tuatara. They both go way back to ancient times and they are threatened by extinction. The threat — at least in the case of Latin teachers — is entirely manmade. In December, the Ministry of Education decided to drop Latin from the national high-school curriculum. So what does that mean for the rare species that is the Latin teacher? The other day, three of them, representing about a fifth of the total Latin-teacher population in Auckland, met in a Mount Eden