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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t just an admissions question.  Calculus is routinely used in economics, statistics, finance, data science, and some quantitative fields within the social sciences. Math teacher is just wrong.[/quote]

[b]Raise your hand if you use calculus in your job!  Crickets, I'm sure, for most of us.  Yeah, I took calculus as a senior in high school - big whoop.  Never ever used it again.  None of my highly educated family members/friends all with good jobs use it either.[/b]  Admittedly, we are not in STEM fields (but this jibes with the middle school teachers take).[/quote]

The point isn't whether calculus is actually useful (for the vase majority of people it isn't)  The point is that competitive colleges for right or wrong expect that kids take it in HS.  By choosing not to take it, a kid is shutting a door.  They are eliminating even the possibility of attending a well-regarded university.  Most of us who have kids who are very good students in middle school, don't want to see our kids close that door.  
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