Hard to even begin to imagine how training minds with algebra could be bad thing.
If you put in minimal effort and as a result don’t do well in math, it migh damage your self esteem. No kidding, that’s the Social “Scientist’s rational.
I agree........Algebra and it's fractions helped me tremendously throughout my life. It was the math beyond such as Geometry that was my downfall and if my mom was still alive today, after punishing me severely for flunking Geo., I would say to her "See mom, I was right, I never needed it........"