No more high school calculus

Every now and then the debate revolving math high school education flares up. A common take I hear is that we should stop pressuring kids to take calculus 1 by their senior year, and we should encourage an alternative math class (more pragmatic), typically statistics.

Am I alone in thinking that stats is harder than calculus? Is it really more practical and equally rigorous to teach kids to regurgitate z-scores at the drop of a hat?

More importantly, are there …

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