<p>In Seattle we have been debating whether to add a couple years of math to the requirements for graduating high school.
while many advocate against it, many have advocated for it, Including David Horsey a political cartoonist, and public school teachers citing that they have never needed anything beyond algebra in their work.( which terrifies me)</p>
<p>Most English majors have never struck me as being overly interested in technical material, any more than many engineers have struck me as being interested in literature. ( However just as a survival technique, 10 years out of college, english majors may have had to become interested just to be employed)
I have known musicians who were math geeks and the reverse, but while colleges may have "dumbed down" science requirements for lit majors, they dont have "dumbed down" english requirements for physics majors, because while you have to be able to read and write to produce scientific papers, you don't have to be able to explain a proof to analyze a poem.</p>