http://www.ekathimerini.com/232297/article/ekathimerini/news/anger-over-scrapping-of-latin-classes
What can we do about it? Well, a petition won’t hurt. The more pressure, domestic and foreign, the better:
I’ve gotten in an argument about this when I read about it at the Modern Greek language blog I frequent (https://sarantakos.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/latin), but (not that I am happy to admit it) Latin has so shrunk in the last couple of decades in Greek schooling, that’s there not much to defend any more: taught only in the final year of high school, 1-2 hours of week, and involving the memorisation of 25 baby texts like this: http://lyk-k-achaias.ach.sch.gr/autosch/joomla15/images/kopana/latinika_b_lyk/LECTIO_I.pdf. It wasn’t nothing, but it wasn’t that much better than nothing.
I first became interested in language through finding my uncle’s old Greek Cornelius Nepos textbook. Those after me won’t have that kind of experience any more.