re: #3 calochortus

On the other hand, Algebra II isn’t something everyone needs in daily life-IIRC back in my high school days it was Algebra II or a 3rd year of a foreign language or Chemistry or Physics.

Hmm… as I recall from having to take all those courses in high school, all that math was a requirement. I had to take even more in college as a biology major with a chemistry minor.