You youngin's arguing about where you were taught ignore that more important might be when you were taught. Your high school years might have been when I was already working on my second marriage and buying a house. And therefore, ft/second^2, bitches.
I find that to be...disappointing. I mean, is there a U. S. high schooler today that couldn't handle a metric measurement? When I was in high school we were trying to get there with dual measurement road signs (km/miles) and metric soft drink bottles. Then Reagen got into office, viewed the metric system as some sort of communist plot, and axed the Bureau of Metric Whatever back in the 80s. So we had an excuse.
These days I'd think it almost unconscionable to teach kids scientific measurements in anything but metric.
