I’ve spent all of my career in engineering related work and have never needed Black, Latino, Women or other related social education.
Do your knuckles hurt from scraping the ground all day? ;-)
Exactly. They never want to allow math, science, and engineering students to skip studying black history, women’s studies, gender studies, hispanic studies, sensitivity training, social studies.
They also insist on a certain amount of English, foreign languages, literature, music, art, gym class, home ec, shop class.
Personally, I could have stopped taking English classes around 7th or 8th grade and I would still have verbal and grammatical skills that exceed those of most journalists.
What I’d really like to see is some sort of proficiency exam which allows students who meet the standards to either skip having to sit through additional instruction aimed at those who are struggling, or else puts them into some sort of high level program that actually challenges and engages them.