My classmate has brought up the subject of Texas considering dropping Algebra II in high school. My classmate has agreed with this because it seems unreasonable to have someone learn what will never be used in their working lives. I have the same opinion. Math is the type of subject known to give people anxiety and I am one of those people. Though I do use math everyday at work, majority of it was not learned in Algebra. In Algebra II, you expect people to learn something in a certain time frame that they just try to memorize it instead of learning it. History, Science, and English do give people a hard time as well but those are what is used in your everyday life. Not so much Algebra II. The Pythagorean theorem is NEVER going to come up in conversation or be applied to your job like the other subjects unless the conversation is about useless information you learned in High School and how much time was wasted on it. As that saying goes, people value grades more than they value learning.
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