A lot of people are arguing that you don't need these kind of maths unless you go into a math field, and while that might be true , I still don't think it justifies the school in discouraging students to take higher maths. To turn the argument around, if I know I'm going to be a computer programmer why should I be required to take art or know how to diagram a sentence? I'm probably not going to use what I learn in a lot of the humanities classes I'm required to take. They're required though, because a school wants to encourage a certain standard of knowledge, including working with numbers and abstract concepts. Regardless I think it's important that a school encourages students to learn and challenge themselves in all areas especially in high school where you still haven't necessarily figured out what you want to pursue.
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A lot of people are arguing that you don't need these kind of maths unless you go into a math field, and while that might be true , I still don't think it justifies the school in discouraging students to take higher maths. To turn the argument around, if I know I'm going to be a computer programmer why should I be required to take art or know how to diagram a sentence? I'm probably not going to use what I learn in a lot of the humanities classes I'm required to take. They're required though, because a school wants to encourage a certain standard of knowledge, including working with numbers and abstract concepts. Regardless I think it's important that a school encourages students to learn and challenge themselves in all areas especially in high school where you still haven't necessarily figured out what you want to pursue.