It’s pretty sad that every math teacher in the USA didn’t sign it. Apparently most math teachers are fine with it.
I wouldn’t care if these were all people destined to be the French Fry guy at BK, or a septic tank ‘technician’, or minister.
But the minute you say it’s in the nursing field, trucking field, anything to do with chemicals, or carpentry...you can’t weaken math skills.
Maybe it’s time to just write an exit for high school kids at the 8th grade and tell them their destiny in life....won’t require much in terms of skills (math or otherwise).
Quite seriously, public school math teachers barely take real mathematics courses in college, at least not the courses for mathematicians, engineers and scientists. Those with education degrees really have degrees in indoctrination. This is how indoctrination works. All those with MathEd degrees go around convinced they have unquestionable knowledge. That is a case of a big fish in a small pond. They have been indoctrinated into thinking they are some kind of expert in mathematics when all they have is an education degree.
I personally watched "slower" people drop out of rigorous mathematics courses and majors when I was in college 40 years ago. The progression goes: start as a math major, if you can't hack it, then become a Math Ed major. If you can't hack that, then become an El Ed major with a concentration in bulletin boards.