What you’ve been saying is based on your experience (very limited). The essence of your beliefs are that you and 12 other people could have done this book on high school therefore it should be a class in high school. Though you have no evidence that high schools have the resources to give a class that very few people are qualified to take. The distribution of qualified students is such that each individual high school will on average have very few students capable of taking such a class.
You went to high school and university and tutored some people. Therefore you know much more than me on what is appropriate to teach high schoolers. I just have 30 years of experiece teaching college level mathematics. Your arguements are compelling and I now agree with you.
The irony of you making this comment in a thread about math. 12 per year out of a population of 2 million in a remote, thus likely under served, thus likely under performing region.
My own experience is a rate closer to 1 per 35 in a reasonably well off region within the US.
You clearly have not taught mathematics at either the college level or the high school level. But your experience carries a great deal of weight. You are correct. I’ve taught mathematics at Purdue University, Florida State University, University of Kansas, various community colleges and in a prison. I don’t know what I’m talking about. The book in question should be a course at every high school. Each high school will certainly have enough students who can take such a course to justify having the course.
By the way, don’t look up what an outlier is and don’t forget that your anecdote is, in fact, data.
Indeed, I have not. Nor do I need to in order to make simple observations that contradict your claims. You are representing that something which is already widely put into practice is infeasible. A strange hill to die on.
The amusing thing is that if your claims weren't framed as an absolute they'd likely be correct. But when you attempt to make sweeping generalizations about the entire country you will almost invariably be wrong regardless of the topic at hand.
I'll also note that intentionally misattributing claims to me is neither in good faith nor in keeping with HN guidelines.
What you’ve been saying is based on your experience (very limited). The essence of your beliefs are that you and 12 other people could have done this book on high school therefore it should be a class in high school. Though you have no evidence that high schools have the resources to give a class that very few people are qualified to take. The distribution of qualified students is such that each individual high school will on average have very few students capable of taking such a class.
You went to high school and university and tutored some people. Therefore you know much more than me on what is appropriate to teach high schoolers. I just have 30 years of experiece teaching college level mathematics. Your arguements are compelling and I now agree with you.