And I no longer "need" to jump out of air planes, qualify as expert on the M-16 or do about half a billion other tasks that ... could.... just might... possibly.... improve some area of my life.But you did all of those things. You don't have to do them any more? Great. But, students should learn some algebra. They don't have to keep doing it, but it will be good that they learned it.
I have no problem with algebra. In fact, I believe that often students are pushed into Trig and Calc when they need another year of algebra or statistics.