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The Hole Got Fixed said
Ah, but you see, it’s vital to our education, because when we’re older, we’ll need to use it every single day!  

Of course, of course! 

The only occupations that require use of knowledge gained in Algebra 2 are:

1. High school math teacher

2. Rocket scientist

3. College math professor

4. “Mathematician” (is that even a real job?)

5. … that’s it. Maybe if you were in the military?

Let’s face it: PARABOLAS ARE USELESS. NOBODY EVER USES NEGATIVE EXPONENTS. THE AVERAGE HUMAN BEING WILL NEVER EVER HAVE TO USE ANY INFORMATION LEARNED IN ALGEBRA THROUGHOUT THEIR WHOLE LIFE.

Ron Nasty said

There’s computer programming, architecture, medicine, cookery, civil engineering, financial services…

There’s many more careers that need algebra than you’re allowing for. Doesn’t make it any less hateful than many (including myself) find it, but it does come into many more careers than you’d suspect.  

That’s a fair point. Maybe if the class were optional… or if they hired better teachers. I can’t stand math but my favorite class last year was math because I had the best teacher ever. This year my teacher cannot teach. So I have to teach myself everything out of the book, and I cannot teach either, so my math grade isn’t especially wonderful right now. 

I am jealous of your ignorance. I too remember the sweet days when to my young self, a parabola was but a deformed semicircle. 

Algebra is so useful to me, I use it every day. You see, I’m constantly losing x. The little bugger keeps wandering off, and I’m always looking for him. Have you seen him anywhere?

Ahhh Girl said
Let the people who like the math stuff go for it. Just leave the rest of us alone. Surely there’s some type of aptitude test they can give to see who would like this stuff and who wouldn’t. Or just do a couple of weeks of it and if somebody says “I quit” then let them quit.  

Yes!!! I know plenty of perfectly respectable and intelligent people who like math and plan to have sciency/mathy careers someday. They can take math! They like taking math! Math class is good for them! But not for me. I don’t ever want a career that requires knowledge of graphing radicals. Yet I don’t get that choice.

On a side note, I love how this thread is now devoted to math complaints 

My brother is starting HS next year and he was asking me about what classes are good and whether the teachers at my school are good, and I couldn’t tell him anything because it all depends so much on the teacher. I’ve taken honors/advanced math classes since seventh grade even though I hate math, because it seems that the honors classes always have the best teachers, so the classes are actually ok. Unfortunately it backfired this year and I got a very hard teacher who goes way too fast and never explains anything and takes off points on tests for things like not drawing the lines of a graph straight enough and putting the negative sign next to the denominator instead of the numerator. 

The mat is supposed to look tan, not yellow, and the frame is a brighter white.

Well I’m off to study for the math test I have tomorrow (). I’m panicking about it very much because my grade will SUFFER if I don’t do well. *takes deep breaths* *puts in earbuds* *relaxes* There’s no way I’ll be able to properly concentrate now but I will freak out if I don’t have music. Thank you George! Pisces Fish is my savior!

I reread the chapter and did like ten practice problems and I still don’t understand anything and the test is tomorrow and ahhhhhhhhh why can’t my teacher just learn to teach math. 

Thanks for the support though