My wife teaches trig, pre-calc, calc. For a while, she had the only calc class in the region. Now I think there are one or two more.
I can see offering trig, pre-cal, and geometry to some minor degree, but let’s face it...eighty percent of the kids in school today don’t need these skills. If we are pushing a bunch of kids toward this...we are simply wasting resources and time. If a kid is gifted and able to grasp this area of math...fine, open the door and find some method to introduce it. Otherwise, they need to think about the value of some of this stuff and the real world. It’s like offering chemistry or biology classes to a sixteen year old kid, who will end up as a baker’s assistant at Wal-Mart in two years.