Why are you not pasting the full sentence and blatantly strawmanning by taking my words out of context?

> high school geometry classes are just basically using cleaned up and modernized texts based on Euclid's Elements, right?

So you are admitting then that Euclid is too antiquated and required "clean up" and "modernization" to be presented to modern American audiences? Do those "cleaned up and modernized texts" still have you do compass and straightedge proofs? What about instruction in the use of an abacus?

Fuck modern mathematical algebraic notation too, let's expend paragraphs of ancient Greek to describe a mathematical object that would be one line in modern notation.