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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
> You don't need a graphic calculator for high school.

Well, you need one if the instructor makes it a requirement, which my kid's high school does. They're actually tested on linear regression, but they don't know how to compute sum of least squares: they know how to type a list into their calculator and run the least squares function. It's on the exam, and if they don't have the TI graphing calculator with that exact function programmed into it, they fail the test.

>>comman+IX
Isn't it your duty as a parent and citizen to push back against that nonsense?

I'd LOVE for your kid's 0 test score to go viral on social media and get kilobucks of revenue from the 15 minutes of fame to pay for college.

>>gowld+d91
How does that help anyone other than the parent and the social media networks?