My only take on high school math is fuck trigonometry — people who get to complex numbers can treat all of trig as a mildly interesting corollary, essentially no one else needs to know it.
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Great, they can learn it in electrical engineering school as a trivial consequence of complex numbers, as discussed 
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Why not argue this about the periodic table, or geology, or literally anything you learn at school.
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None of the stuff you'd use in electrical engineering uses the trig you learn in high school anyway If they wanted to teach complex numbers and phasors then yeah, those would be useful (and you learn them when doing EE in uni anyway)
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It’s also used in tooling, machining, product design, much of manufacturing, aviation engineering, anything requiring force vectors, which is a lot. I suppose you’ll add all that to your “add it to the x school!” list.
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Many of these require learning about complex numbers too (in which case defer trig until after complex numbers, when it becomes trivial) and if not, teach it as a short side course alongside all the other math you need. Don’t make high school students study it!
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