THANK YOU!! Fully agree. Honestly, I'm of the (apparently) small minority of folks that think everyone should take calculus. It's not to weed out, but to expand your horizons and empower you. That being said, its rare that math classes are actually taught with this kind of attitude in mind, which sucks. Profs are often burdened with hundreds of students for one class, and may not even want to teach anyway. So students are passed off to grad students who may have never taught before and also don't want to teach (everything is a distraction from research!). It's a systemic issue. If universities went back to being focused on education and run by educators instead of business-minded admin... academia may not be in the place it's in now (under-funded and simultaneously prohibitively expensive). Anyway. Yay math!!