Calculus in Lower Education

Since Calculus is a sort of "big picture" view of what everything in Highschool Math actually means and looks like, should there be some kind of Pre-PreCalculus or Calculus Concepts that can be introdeuced around first year highschool?  So people could perhaps actually understand what it is they're learning?

Id say the English curriculum could be more challenging early on, but our limey, communist ways means under no circumstance will a child be told they suck ass, despite them sucking whole acres of it

I went from picking my arse in year 9 to having to learn algebra ( pretty much quadratics and up, including simultaneous equations), trigonometry and a whole load of other stuff in the two year GCSE course becuase top-set mathematics before that was limited to colouring in things under the pretense of 'introducing loci'.

The A-level course is the ifrst time calculus is mentioned, and it pretty much becomes a course in calculus

Its not like kids are going to break down if you introduce things earlier, and use the right terminology instead of hand-waving around the issue