>yeah but its not like its pushed much outside of chemistry
Every science class I had in high school used metric. We also spent a fair amount of time going through it in elementary and middle school math classes.
My younger sister (by 20 years) spent a good deal of time on the metric system in her math classes.
it simply is not a priority, it could be slowly slipped into prominence by emphasizing the measurements on everyday items instead of making those in small print