The Dean Dad slaps his forehead and asks a question:
We have anecdotal evidence that suggests that students who actually take math for all four years of high school do better in math here than those who don’t. We also have anecdotal evidence that bears crap in the woods. Why the hell do the high schools only require two years of math?
Silly Dean Dad– math is too hard. It would be completely unreasonable to make kids take more math, and anyway, it’s perfectly ok to know nothing about math.
(That’s sarcasm, by the way. Click on the link.)
The comments to the original post are well worth reading– I suspect there’s a lot of truth to the economic explanations they suggest. Which are the very definition of “penny wise and pound foolish,” but what did you expect?