Mathematicians are basically just accountants, right? And the IRS has gazillions of accountants who only really work during tax season...so, if our math progra

Mathematicians are basically just accountants, right? And the IRS has gazillions of accountants who only really work during tax season...so, if our math programs suck, let's move our tax due date to overlap with schools' summer break, fire all the math teachers and replace them with those IRS guys! It might be better than the existing system and it could hardly be worse. There's already been some work done on a curriculum (warning: PDF link): http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~djv/irs.pdf http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~djv/irs.pdf