<p>Most schools recommend staying with one language for 4 years. The problem with Latin is that your time is spent reading/translating and writing. Some students find this boring after a few years. It’s hard to predict whether or not your son will find it boring and tedious by the 3rd or 4th year.</p>
<p>A living language offers opportunities for conversations, foreign travel, television shows, movies, friendships with people who speak that language, newspapers, more extensive literature, etc.</p>
<p>At least with Latin he won’t be competing with native speakers on the AP test and SAT subject test. </p>
<p>I cannot comment on the difficulty of Latin at Exeter.</p>