Only a handful of people can earn a living becoming academics and we're in a time where many people are being "pushed" into credentialing up. Forcing people who are going back to school to further their professional careers to learn a language that isn't marketable makes the degree they're trying earn worth less.
Please think harder about why you're offering this class and consider offering something else instead that will provide more value to the adults trying to compete in this flat world.
We live in the age of COVID. All of society had to change it's daily patterns in a matter of days. Considering this, doing another societal wide tweak to rid ourselves from biannually screwing with our sleep patterns does seem trivial.
What others have said about leverage, standard deviation of prices, A+B book biz models, get rich scheme marketing, finding some sort of predictability is paramount, a tendency to find really bottom of the barrel people running the retail brokerages are all true.
The retail FX market is a dark, dark place. I spent roughly half a decade in the space setting up marketing analytic systems and presences for existing and new entrants into the space throughout the world. If you have a shred of humanity in you, I recommend staying the heck away from it minus having a small sum in it if you like testing your understanding of macro economics. Outcomes are very binary and most brokerages have code running to prevent their clients from developing a strategic advantage for that reason.
With all that said, amazed anyone put in any effort to make the Metatrader product look pretty. There's 0 money in it. The existing market does NOT like change. Means trying to find a new way to screw everyone else.
Click bait - thought the post was about the ripple effect of the ever inflating cost of undergrad and grad degrees through society. Instead it's a reactionary piece to the current push for more political correctness in academia.
You're missing many other ways how we (America) subside driving I.E. how much of our armed forces (especially the Navy) have been built out and utilized post WWII to ensure a steady stream of oil.
On a side note, that would be an interesting PhD dissertation - figuring out the actual cost of America's car-centric lifestyle broken down locally, state and nationally.