>> Martin said it’s also important to remember that vocational training is not the only purpose of math education. This is true, and not just for high school

>> Martin said it’s also important to remember that vocational training is not the only purpose of math education. This is true, and not just for high school but for college. Neither are out to teach specific vocational skills - rather they provide the underlying tools that students need to learn their vocation later on. Sure we could stream kids from grade 1 for their "allocated profession", teaching them only with regard to their eventual job, but there's a reason we don't go that pretty dystopian route. With that in mind we can argue that one curriculum is better than another for a specific path or other. But really that's a fruitless, and pointless argument. Future STEM students need Calculus, future programmers need Logic, future artists need Color Theory. If I had to argue for a curriculum change I'd lobby for things like budgeting and basic accounting - but that's just me and everyone will have a different opinion.