Latin can be good or bad depending on the teacher. We went from school books to the hardest real texts headfirst, with no Caesar or others ever mentioned. On the upside, after the torture, I never needed to study for Latin again at my new school and got an automatic A. Yay (Hearing old white men rant about the decadence of youth and how women are causing society to collapse does get boring, though. Not to mention, some military stuff seems questionable). What I did learn from all of that, is that Hipster-dom was already rampant back then. I'm talking literal sheeple comparisons here... over and over again. Might aswell re-title the subject to:
A) how we kicked someone's *ss (or how we shouldn't assert our superiority, because some forms of asserting superiority are superior to others)
B) how everyone except me is bad (especially the Y!)
C) Everything was better x years ago!
D) Catilina! Old gods! Sin! Arrrgghh
Before that stuff, the myths were pretty entertaining, though. But what we covered in "real" Latin was worse than the language. But then again, I'm not a history buff.