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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never took calculus at all. I fulfilled college math requirements with statistics and econ classes.

I recently sold a business for 13 million.

How about we make sure students graduating high school know how to read, can write competently, and have a broad base of knowledge in science, math, history, literature, arts and culture? And they should have baseline public speaking skills and understand basic project management.

I will never understand this weird belief that everyone should go into STEM, or that even STEM students don't need a general education in non-stem subjects. This is why so many people wind up struggling in the workplace. Most jobs require generalists who know how to communicate well and can self motivate and be organized. But everyone wants their kid to be a hyper specialist genius in one narrow area. That's like .01% of jobs. Plus if technology makes that job obsolete, that person has no ability to pivot.

We need more well rounded kids, fewer "pointy" kids.[/quote]

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