Be it resolved that grade 11 math is not mandatory in Canadian high schools

I affirm that 11th Grade math should be required in Canadian high schools I would also like to accept both of my opponents definitions as being accurate. Argument 1 - High school's objective is not to make students look like they are mensa-level geniuses on their high school transcripts. It is to build the foundations for real life, and to give college students an upper-hand when it comes to taking on college courses. Contrary to some subjects Math uses a different aspect of the mind, logic. The ability to reason and take variables and decide which course to take to come up with a correct solution. Math is designed to weed out students who don't work hard or study hard enough. While some people may have a natural advantage in math, those same people may not have an advantage in another subject. Why should math be voluntary but another subject be mandatory? Should we not all be subjected to the different aspects of knowledge? Argument 2 - I consider reality to be all of the following: Work (the math you stated applies to Physics, Accounting, Architecture, Engineers, Pharmacists, Those working in a business, Criminal Justice, Forensic Investigation, etc. A large quantity of the top performing jobs in America require the math concepts you just illustrated. ), Making a budget, writing your own retirement plan. Furthermore, highschool calculus, and highschool physics courses rely a great deal on skills 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. If you make math mandatory as is natural with any student looking to get into a better college will select 2 incredibly easy electives that will teach them nothing in order to get better grades. "Unless you want to study in a field that is math related" My opponent in this statement is presuming to make the conjecture that over half of 11th grade high school students will keep the same major. About 25 percent of college freshmen enter as undeclared, according to Issues in Advising the Undecided College Student. "Although some students simply don't declare a major, others have a certain major at the start of college and a different major at the end. For instance, April Navarro of Crest Hill, a graduate student at University of Illinois in Chicago, wanted to major in psychology, or so she thought. "I ended up changing my major three times. I changed from psychology to history and finally to criminal justice," she said. Randy M. Miller, chairman of ReadyMinds, a program that counsels college students, said that changing college majors is common. He said 75 percent of students change their major at least once. " SOURCE: . http://www.readyminds.com... CONCLUSION Thus, with the plurality of college students being unsure of their major/changing it, why on earth would we not mandate a subject which is crucial to the majority of majors and jobs? By not mandating algebra, most highschool students will not take it because of its difficulty, this will increase the average GPA of students nation-wide which will in turn make useless my opponents main argument against it. I will not even respond to the third argument because it is whining and is purely opinionated. It is not factual and thus has no place in this debate.