Right on.
This piece focuses on emphasizing statistics over trig/calculus in the mandatory stages of education. Education has relied highly on tradition, and as I understand it (without sourcing) the trig/calculus path comes from German university tracks of over a century ago.<p>The relationship of statistics to gambling does make it relevant to today's teenager (in the US and UK, anyway, IDK about other countries). I'd add that some amount of combinatorics and probability was derived by analyzing games.<p>Also, in addition to probability, schools should teach basic logic. It's also highly applicable to daily life.