An all-boys school with an unusual Latin focus
Dead language comes alive at W. Phila. charter
By MENSAH M. DEAN
Fri, Oct. 12, 2007

AT A BRAND-NEW boys school in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia, students are saying things they've never said before.

Words such as agricola (farmer), femina (woman), patria (fatherland), puella (girl), terra (earth) and silva (woods).

They are inside a classroom where the walls are decorated with maps of ancient Rome, Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia, and where there's a poster proclaiming, "Latin didn't fall with Rome." the rest