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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High schools really need to stop offering calc and pre-calc altogether.[/quote]

I'm so confused by this. I thought all kids needed to take calc to get into the highest colleges and now people are saying pre-calc shouldn't even be a high school class? [/quote]

No one needs to take math beyond what’s offered at their high school. This creates a perverse situation where it’s bad for the students if their high school offers more math. So the PP is saying that, given those perverse incentives, high schools that want to help their students with college admissions should offer less math.

(In reality, colleges seem to be solving this problem from their end by putting less emphasis on the math progression.)[/quote]

Yes, this is what you see when you read college websites carefully. They distinguish math recommendations between engineering and humanities kids. It definitely was a risk and stressful to take the non Calc route but that was the right decision for our kid and it worked out. [/quote]

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