Originally Posted by Bostonian
American society is committed to the idea that almost everyone should graduate from high school, including people with IQs in the 80s and 90s, who are just as numerous as the people with IQs in the 100s and 110s. You can give someone with a 90 IQ a high school diploma, but you cannot make him "fully prepared for college", unless you remove serious intellectual demands from college work.

Not relevant, because I said, "certain courses."

If completing Algebra II is the generally accepted math benchmark for college readiness, then college-bound students should complete at least Algebra II. I've never seen Algebra II as a requirement to get a high school diploma.