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>>lewisf+(OP)
You don't need a graphic calculator for high school. Hundreds of millions of kids in China and India graduate without one and do just fine. Differential calculus is now 400+ years old and generations of humans have done fine without a graphing calculator.

>>shriph+jQ
Go you, speaking truth to power!

Or, you know, not. It's a settled thing, and has been for a long time.

I'm too old to have been part of the TI cohort, but I had one of the early graphing calculators in high school (1987 or so), from Casio, and let me tell you having the ability to quickly graph a function is actually SUPER USEFUL, especially in an experimental/learning environment.

So maybe stop whining that "millions of kids" elsewhere or in the past didn't have one, because it's completely irrelevant.