It’s April 21, and history or legend tells us that Rome was founded on this date in 753 B.C. We say “legend” because there is a famous myth that twins Romulus (who gave his name to the city) and Remus founded the city. Another myth says that the city was founded by Aeneas and his descendants after the Trojan War. No matter which myth or version of history you believe, many historians agree that Rome was in fact founded on April 21, which was the day of the festival sacred to the goddess of shepherds. On a couple separate occasions American School had a Latin 1 course among its high school correspondence courses, and the founding of Rome was discussed in that course. Latin 1 has been discontinued, and the founding of Rome and its presence in Latin 1 got us thinking about other discontinued courses and how American School has evolved over the years. In our very early years, American School offered courses in animal husbandry and heavy machinery and similar subjects because those types of courses were in demand at that time. Eventually there wasn’t the need for those subjects and they were discontinued. Other paper-based high school courses might be discontinued because the textbook went out of print or there is simply little or no demand for them. That does not mean that we will not bring those courses back one day if a new textbook is available or if there is demand for them. We often replace discontinued courses with courses on material or topics that are more relevant to today’s students because we want to have as many relevant courses as possible available to our students. Visit our courses page to see a list of our latest offerings, and visit our enrollment page to get started. Thank you for making us your distance education high school.