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Children pick up languages fast. Immersion is key.
Plus Latin is already taught at a lot of schools, Esperanto doesn't have this advantage.
If I had to pick a constructed language, I think Ido or Lojba would be better. Or hell, Toki Pona if you only care about fast vocab.
The reintroduction of Welsh via primary schooling in Wales has been super successful, a really good example of how quickly kids learn and I used to know some couples who had young children that could speak Welsh and they didn't and it really bugged them as they had no idea what their kids are saying. But pretty much in one or two generations of children, a very endangered language is coming back.
Yeah, it's beautiful. Here's to hope that that'll happen to Irish too.
Esperanto has far more C2 level speakers than Latin. Teachers teaching Latin in European highschools generally can't speak it themselves. It's not taught as a living language to use on your life, it's taught in order to understand ancient scripts.