<p>@agreatperhaps
Algebra is a pretty important concept regardless of what career you’re interested in…
It’s just a fundamental part of being an educated human being. If you walk out of high school not knowing how to solve a linear equation, I’d be pretty angry if I was a taxpayer.</p>
<p>In other cases, certainly, there are some concepts you’ll probably never use that you learn in high school…
However, in learning to solve those problems, you utilize the analytical thinking process that you honestly would truly benefit from and can apply to other situations in later careers down the road and even other avenues of their life. That (and the incredibly broad, slightly unrealistic scope of curriculum that teachers are required to teach) is what makes some STEM classes so difficult, but it also makes it rewarding in the long-term.</p>