If it had no point, would we still be using it and learning it 2000 years later? Sure, to most people, it's just an annoying subject in school, but Latin (and pretty much half of the ancient Roman culture) is the basis of the western world. Knowing the basics of Latin will greatly improve the chances to learn some other languages and it is always good to be educated. I had Latin in high school (for two years) and learning Latin helped me with some English (and vice versa). I won't even go into explaining how much would it help for Italian, Spanish, French and even Germanic languages. Maybe it doesn't really help directly, but to me, it was a pretty good combo.
I now have Latin in college because I study archaeology. Without Latin, you literally can't be an archaeologist, and it extends to many other professions (history, medicine, law, biology, all of linguistics, etc. (<- speaking of Latin, there's a syntagm we almost use every day)). Personally, I love it and I even use Facebook in Latin. However, pushy parents are another pair of socks and Latin is really not the point then, isn't it? If you're pushed into anything, you'll think it's redundant. Or if you just don't have a preference for it. I know I felt like half of math we learnt in school is seriously completely redundant and pointless, but that's just my lack of interest and understanding of it.
