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You live in a fantasy world...  Doctors teachers lawyers accountants even most scientists will NEVER EVER have to use anything beyond algebra.  In the small chance that they do they'll be a program or app for it.[/quote]

There's no end of stuff that almost nobody does after K-12, and yet it's taught in K-12. I, for one, would have been very happy for PE to have omitted volleyball. Who has to play volleyball in their adult lives? Let's get rid of it. We can get rid of most of science, too, while we're at it -- when's the last time you had to balance a chemical equation? And who needs to do arithmetic? We have calculators on our phones for that. Actually we can get rid of most of school in general. Teach them how to read. That's all anybody really needs.

[b]Alternatively, of course, you could think of math as a fundamental part of education[/b].[/quote]

Fine. Most will agree. But why Algebra I in 7th grade.  I had basic algebra in 10th. What's the freakin' rush?[/quote]

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