re: #8 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

God, I wish we had one class that solely focused on evolution.

In fact, here’s what I’d love to see us study in high school:

Mathematics
Statistics and probability
Civics
Literature
Composition
Biology (with constant evolution-focus)
Physics (with branching into various sub-disciplines, like chemistry)
Logic and Critical thinking.
World history

Pie in the sky sighted! Firing pipe dream!

I actually had all of the classes you listed when I was in high school back in the late ’60s (civics for two years!)
As a senior, I was one of about 10 (and the only female) in an invitation-only class called “Senior Seminar”, which was a class for science geeks where we each selected specific science topics to research and then prepare lesson plans, hand-out materials and projects for week-long lectures that we taught to our fellow seminar classmates. Two of my topics were basics of nuclear physics (I still have the textbook I used) and binary language (I built a very basic computing machine using ball bearings to start things off).
And this at a very small rural SW Ohio public school. My graduating class was the first one to have more than 100 graduates (I think we had 103 grads).