OK, then, let’s go whole hog.
Eliminate spelling and grammar. California has already done it. While we’re teaching kids to excel in innumeracy, we can pile on illiteracy. Checkout clerks don’t need to write or spell, right? Neither do bus drivers. So why make kids learn how to spell much less write a paragraph?
You have to be able to read and write in order to be educated or to educate yourself.
Along with basic mathematics, these language skills are the basic tools of an education which can enable you to make a good living.
Algebra, however, is not a basic tool and millions of folks make a damn good living without it.