So the solution to poor instruction is to drop it?
Math is a useful skill for everyone, including calculus. Not everybody goes to university, so we should teach it in HS.
Math is a useful skill for everyone, including calculus. Not everybody goes to university, so we should teach it in HS.
Most people's lives and jobs involve even less math than mine does.
More stats probably would have been helpful. Anything less-obviously-useful needs a hell of a lot more emphasis on what it's used for and how to apply it than I ever received, IMO, unless you're a pure-math major, and certainly in k-12 since almost none of the kids are going to be math majors.
I used trig yesterday to figure out what angle I needed to cut a board (I'm building a barn).
I used calculus a few weeks ago to help solve an issue I was having with a water tank.
[EDIT] actually, I take that back, I do sometimes work with odd angles but never do it without a physical template built and fitted, because attempts to do it "cute" or figure it out purely on paper have a history of being hilariously wrong (when I do them) even when the math is 100% correct (according to the evidently-not-precise-enough measurements).
... and then I got a new job when I was 43, in medical x-ray machines. Suddenly everything was 3D coordinate transforms, Fourier transforms, and integrals, plus radiation physics.
You don't need or use this stuff... until you do.