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But practicality is not the point of the math curriculum at all, ideally it's to develop quantitative thinking. If practicality is to emphasized, then add stat as a "critical skills/real life prep" course, not as the end of the math curriculum, because really, without calculus statistics is a joke class, and not much of a math class.
If one advocates building the math curriculum around stat just for the practicality of it, then we might also remove literature classes in favor of "business writing", and remove physics for "electronics repair" courses. I wouldn't mind attaching some "practical" classes to the classic curriculum, but structuring curriculum around what's practical and useful at the HS level seems a bit distasteful to me. I know I would've hated it.
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