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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do kids need to take Calculus in high school anyway?

My high school didn't even offer calculus. I simply took a year of it freshman year of college, majored in mathematics, got a master's in a STEM area, and have been working on a STEM field ever since.

What benefit would taking calculus in high school have given me?[/quote]

Well, grandma, things were different in the 70s
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DP.  Yeah, things are very different now. All the crazy competitive parents are running the asylum.  PP was merely stating that without calculus in HS, she's managed to be successful in the stem field.  Instead of listening to someone in STEM, let's listen to people who aren't  :roll: [/quote]

Because one person's experience with an outlier school that didn't offer calculus likely a decade or two ago isn't what school looks like now. When I was in HS (a long time ago), only the actual gifted took calculus and the rest of us took it in college, I'm just not naïve enough to think that nothing changed in the time between then and now.  Now, selective (not just highly selective) schools are looking for HS calculus in their academic rigor assessment, particularly for STEM fields.  So, yes, instead of listening to people whose experience is current and relevant, let's listen to what happened to one person who was in the unusual position of it not being an option in HS (which is very weird, because even my wife's crappy rural HS offered calculus as dual enrollment through VCCS in the late 90s) and how they managed to overcome these unusual circumstances.  Let's definitely treat the outlier as the way it is for everyone.  :roll: [/quote]

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