No Technically Proficient High School Graduates

The meme here came from a reader.

My only objection to the concept is that, since the number of school hours per year is fixed, for everything you add you need to remove something.  From prior conversations on the subject, what is slated for removal is normally Algebra 2, which means logs/exponents, inequalities, matrices, vectors, functions, quadratic equations, and complex numbers.  Proponents need to understand that they are effectively barring students not only from higher math, but also chemistry and physics.

Within a few years, there will be no technically proficient young people emerging from American education.

Our woes with STEM in terms of competition in the international marketplace are bad enough without making them worse.