Math can be used to model climate change.
Look, I’m not criticizing higher mathmatics or algebra. It’s fine for those who are interested in it and/or use it in their careers.
But I still fail to see why we try to shove everyone into the same box in education.
Because employers should be able to assume that a high school graduate has a minimal level of competence in basic skills that are required by employers. It used to be that employers could give skills tests to prospective employees.
Then the lawsuits started when it turned out that most minority graduates couldn’t pass the skills tests.
This is how we got so far down the road of “everyone should go to college” crap. The fact that some bozo has a BA has become a substitute for a competence test.