60% of ANY college degree has nothing to do with (whatever) job day-to-day. Why should aspiring teachers get a break from the classical liberal well-rounded 120-credit BS/BA design?

I'm in my last term as an adult student (49yo) finishing up my BS (from an AA I got a looong time ago) and already have a job making 100k. I went to finish the BS as a "gateway" pass to higher positions. But because of the long time since my education and the various CLEPs and whatnot I used to gain my AA, I ended up having to (re)take some pretty basic 200-level stuff to meet the degree program and minimums of my university. Really now...I'm a 49 yr old already making 100k in my 2nd career (retired enlisted military) as an IT professional, and I have to take a class about Nutrition?! (To meet a 100/200 level science "hole" in my matriculation) With a lab. Basic lab. Have to sit there and listen to how the bunson burner can hurt you. At my age. Why should aspiring Teachs be exemt from tribulations?