re: The biggest problem in schools that no one is talking about

I teach Advanced Math: Pre-Calculus at a pretty good high school outside of BR. Well, our third quarter exams start Friday and there is a lot of Trigonometry on it, including a section where I am asking the students to find the exact value of angles and another section where I am asking the students to evaluate inverse trigonometric functions. Well, calculators can do this crap for them so I am not allowing calculators at all for those two sections. I told them they are more than welcome to draw a unit circle on their scratch paper once the exam starts and they could use that for the two sections. I have gotten emails from about 10 parents complaining that it's not fair of me to not let them use calculators for those two sections. Lol, oh well I guess I am an a-hole douchebag teacher who won't let them use a calculator as a crutch.