I think the push back is really just based around the feeling that by not spending a few hours a week for part of a school year, kids will never be able to read

I think the push back is really just based around the feeling that by not spending a few hours a week for part of a school year, kids will never be able to read something. So I think in general it’s just a weird feeling like if they decided learning any math after basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division wasn’t necessary and removed it for more relevant topics. It’s easy to argue that long division will never be useful for most people, but it also feels weird deciding what future generations can be ignorant about it