Biology and trig are both staple subjects in high school if you want to pursue higher education, especially in those fields. Without trig, I would have failed out of engineering two years ago, when I first started. These concepts are extremely important, so underestimating their importance would be detrimental to your chances of a high educated and paid job, as well as hindering your potential ability to further society. Taxes are indeed important, that is why most schools are beginning to integrate it into the curriculum. If you need to know now, as your parents, I'm sure they know how to do taxes.
There NEEDS to be classes on life skills, like how to write a CV, how banks work, loans, taxes, money management, stocks, first aid, basic child care, heck even a bit of sewing, cooking and basic repairs (for both girls and boys). One class for economics and one for "home skills". These classes should also be part of the basic curriculum and not option classes, because with option classes, they aren't always options. You are sometimes forced to choose science, physics and/or chemistry in order to get a higher education, putting aside other classes you might prefer.
In every highschool I've went to you're supposed to have a life skills class and a civics and economics class, which teaches everything about the economy and taxes etc. To graduate. I'm from the US also
Uhm we did a financial literacy class in like 7th grade but it was a joke and in high school the only required classes were gym, health (also a joke), english, social studies, math, and science.
More and more schools now are making economics and financial literacy a graduation requirement, but I agree that there needs to be more life skills classes as a requirement
Instead of making tech ed mandatory, they should make one of those life skills classes mandatory. I mean, not everyone wants to learn how to use Alice, but everyone needs to know how do taxes
"International"? I had to look it up to know what it is. We have different methods of learning trigonometric functions in non-English speaking countries.
Well, your username is "badasslatina", so I'm guessing you're from Central/South America. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the educational system of Latin America is based on the US one, since they're on the same continent, so I'm guessing some methods can be found in both, especially if the abbreviation is the same in English and Spanish.
And yes, international is, by definition, "more than one country", but it is commonly used when speaking about a lot of countries. By your definition, Queen Elizabeth II. is also international, and German, French, and even Dutch, are international languages, and almost every river in the world is an international river, because it crosses "more than one country". Doesn't sound that good now, does it?
You can still dance around it, but international still means more than one country, no matter if they have the same language, not the same language, are in the same continent or not. And i don't see either why you had to bring such a small fact into a discussion
I love how you completely ignored the first part, which was by the way the more important one because I was expecting to at least learn something about the Latin American education system. The second part was a "by the way" part, but since you decided to focus on that, here's what uncle Google tells me:
international
ɪntəˈnaʃ(ə)n(ə)l/
adjective
existing, occurring, or carried on between nations.
"international trade"
synonyms: global, worldwide, intercontinental
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So, ehm. With synonyms like global and worldwide, it doesn't seem like it's a thing just between two countries, does it?
PS: I always "dance around it" so you can get it. So many times I met people who didn't get what I meant because my explanation was too complex for them to understand, so explaining things became a habit.
I'm in the US, and my school doesn't offer any sort of personal finance, gvmnt, or computer classes at all. Basically nothing to help us, save for college
And yes, international is, by definition, "more than one country", but it is commonly used when speaking about a lot of countries. By your definition, Queen Elizabeth II. is also international, and German, French, and even Dutch, are international languages, and almost every river in the world is an international river, because it crosses "more than one country". Doesn't sound that good now, does it?
international
ɪntəˈnaʃ(ə)n(ə)l/
adjective
existing, occurring, or carried on between nations.
"international trade"
synonyms: global, worldwide, intercontinental
...
So, ehm. With synonyms like global and worldwide, it doesn't seem like it's a thing just between two countries, does it?
PS: I always "dance around it" so you can get it. So many times I met people who didn't get what I meant because my explanation was too complex for them to understand, so explaining things became a habit.