I'm ok with public school becoming more of a joke. At least people will see it for what it is. There are no laws preventing you from teaching your own children calculus, yet.
To the parents out there. The conceptual aspects of calculus can be taught to elementary school students, and should be. So do it. Teach accumulations over time, and changes over time. You can incorporate calculus into every math lesson. Got a problem to solve? It has some parameters? Great. Now very the parameter and as your child by how much did the end result change. You can get a 2nd grader to do that. You'd be teaching them something that isn't taught kids until after trig. The order that we teach things in school makes no sense.
I should probably ask the Doctor of Education that I know about this to see what they say
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