<p>Taught improperly? Yes.</p>
<p>But hard? Not so much.</p>
<p>As far as tracking is concerned, I lived through a tracking system in high school although tracking started only by 10th grade. I was put along the highest of the 3 tracks, going all the way through pre-calculus by grade 11.</p>
<p>And then comes CEGEP, where people could enroll in programs that didn’t require extra math. But, as a physics-mathematics dual major-bound student, I had to do linear algebra and calculus (differential and integral; I’d say that it is about the same as AB and BC AP Calculus courses) before I could go on to university.</p>