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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, here in the 2020s, nearly all HSs offer calculus and college applicants without calc A/B aren't as competitive as ones who did take it in HS.  Students who finished B/C are even better positioned for highly selective college acceptance.  (This is like saying that when my mom graduated, all you needed was a HS diploma to get a job so why are so many people going to college today when you have to have a BA for a lot of admin jobs.  Things change over time.)

Even and my mediocre, non-FCPS HS offered calculus in HS in 1993, and my husband's crappy rural school system at least offered a dual enrollment option so they could take it at the local CC since the HS didn't have a calculus teacher.[/quote]

So it's all about getting into the "right" college, or as the one poster pointed out, financial benefits of a shorter college experience, without any real educational benefits?[/quote]

FWIW, I found that many of my APs I took in HS were more rigorous than what I would have taken in college. I definitely learned calculus better in the HS environment than I would have in an introductory weed out college class. Plus, it covered some of the Calc III content, so that helped me do well in that course also.[/quote]

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