Looking For Dataset(s) That Shows “appreciation” Of Subjects Taught In High School AFTER Graduation

I’m currently investigating what the general opinion is of U.S. high school graduates in areas of the different commonly taught subjects (i.e. history, math, biology, chemistry, etc) that are ubiquitous for all students. In other words, I’m only interested in subjects that are generally mandatory throughout all of high school. Personally, I know physics was NOT a mandatory subject at my school, and if that policy scales to most of the rest of the country, I would not be interested in what the opinions of physics are. I’m trying to study and better understand what subjects people have respect—and to some extent admiration—for regardless of if they did well in them. I did not do particularly well in my high school biology course, but my opinions of biology of a subject were never negative, just my opinions of the textbook, teacher, etc. I would like to know if there are any datasets that probe at this particular aspect high school classes. My gut feeling is that mathematics class leave more people with a genuine distain for the subject itself more so than people would have with an art class, even though, for example, the frequency of people unable to paint a fence after an art class might be comparable with that of the people unable to find the zeros of a quadratic equation. Normally, I would put a lot more effort into tracking down this kind of data myself, but this endeavor would be best described as a side-side project and can’t afford myself to get too sidetracked on it. If anyone has a reference to such a dataset, or even an analysis that mirrors what I’ve detailed, I would be greatly appreciative if you could point me toward it.

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