Should math be taught in school ?

Not to put down the American school system or anything but I have noticed that they don't require much math in public schools at all. The stuff I covered in freshman year of college was the same stuff I remember from 7 and 8 grade in a different country....I went to middle school and some high school somewhere else.

And I don't know why they give kids summer off here, when I was in middle school they didn't give us summers off.....school was a year round deal to give more time to cover more ground.

just an observation