I'm not really sure what my thoughts are on compulsory education like this. But I will say, when I went to high school (in canada) you could opt out of any more

I'm not really sure what my thoughts are on compulsory education like this. But I will say, when I went to high school (in canada) you could opt out of any more math at 15, but somehow had to keep taking English, which meant English literature, right through high school. Forcing someone to read Great Expextations isn't obviously more important than, say, learning trigonometry or to find the slope of a lign