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because it's so easy to get it wrong and very hard to get it right. there is NO room for error like there is in languages or social studies. If i make a typo or a grammatical mistake in an essay it's not the end of the world... in math it completely destroys you.
and it gets worse as it gets more advanced. my calc 3 + 4 bombed because I make a few simple mistakes here and there and it destroyed my entire exam. It sucked balls to work so hard only to end those classes with a C average because no matter how hard i studied i could make a simple error on the exam and derail my entire problem set.
most people do not have the capacity for detail that higher mathematics requires beyond arithmetic and basic algebra... and that's OK. I am not sure why calculus is required of high school students who aren't going into sciences either. A lot of people lose math in algebra 2 or pre calc and for good reason and I'm not sure they should be forced to take it.
I think USA in particular has horrible approach to education in general, and sciences and math especially because it forces so many people who dont' want to learn that stuff and are not good at learning it... to learn it and then it tells them they are stupid for not being good at it. And on the flips side... for people who are good at it it's seen as some inherent genetic trait, when it isn't.
programming is similar. i gave up on it after 3 courses when i realized i would waste hours of time only to later realize I had put a : instead of a ; and it had derailed the entire program.
conceptually i never struggled with math or programming. but i also have horrible 'innate' grammar/language as well from being born into a poor family. but making grammar errors on my papers never sunk my grades in college the way math errors did.