A bit of a tease from the online version of the TES:

A teacher at one of Britain’s most exclusive private schools is embarking on a solo crusade to revive the classics in state schools.

Lorna Robinson, 27, who has been in the profession for only a year, is quitting to promote Latin, Greek and classical history in inner-city comprehensives.

“Classics has all but died in the state sector,” said Dr Robinson, who will leave the £22,995-a-year Wellington college in Berkshire this summer.

From September, she will split her time between teaching at Cheney secondary school, Oxford, and carrying out research into how classics can be better promoted in the maintained sector.

“I’m evangelical about this. I want to try to make a little bit of a difference, because unless there is a real culture change classics may disappear from the state sector. Once that happens, it will be too late to do anything about it. We need to act now,” she said.

Latin and Greek all but disappeared from most state schools after the national curriculum was introduced 18 years ago. But they continue to thrive in the private sector. The OCR exam board, the only one offering GCSEs and AS-levels in classical languages, has already cut the list of compulsory words to be mastered and scrapped oral coursework.

Dr Robinson said more needed to be done. She studied classics at Oxford university and completed a doctorate in the subject at University College London last year before becoming a teacher.

She works in one of the most picturesque private schools in England – with a six-member classics department – but said she has a calling to work in the inner-city.

At Cheney, a socially diverse school where pupils speak more than 30 languages and academic performance is roughly in line with national averages, she will teach part-time, and intends to start a classics society.

... apparently one has to read 'more' in the hard copy version. We can mention, though, that Dr. Robinson is behind Iris Magazine, which we mentioned in the past couple of weeks.