I can't really agree that they're trying to get those subjects out of the way, when you are in math, English and science at minimum throughout your entire K-12. (at least that is what I remember anyways, I'm not fluently educated on this, as I dropped out of school in the middle of my 10th grade year, because I felt I wasn't learning what I needed to know to succeed).
I was one of the last years that they taught Home Ec, Sex Ed, Wood Shop, Agriculture etc. I did learn to balance a check book in my computer class of all places.
I understand there are valid points to learning the subjects thoroughly, but up to a certain point. Where are the lessons on Politics, Economy, Foreign Policy, Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Mortgages, Insurance, Health Coverage etc etc

I was under the belief that the Dept of Education, is the body that determines the standards for teaching the next generation. How foolish was I. Now we have Book Bans on a cosmic scale because parents demand control of what public school teaches ALL children. As I see it, parents have three options to educate their children, Public school, Private school and homeschooling. If they don't approve of one, they need to go to the other. Becoming a parent, 97% of the time, is up the the parents, by choice and if because of their poor personal choices they can't afford private school or homeschooling, they need to suck it up and be thankful that all the taxpayers are paying to educate their children when they didn't have a plan to properly take care and raise an educated productive citizen. Religion is not in public schooling because it is unethical and immoral to force opener religious POV on every child in public schooling, regardless of their own heritage and beliefs.

I don't want any particular agenda pushed and shoved down children's throats, or anything overtly vulgar, I would like to see them teaching how to determine the correct solution on their own, by using the tools they were born with, their eyes, their ears, their mouths, their brains, their feelings.

If we gathered a fellowship of the (insert arbitrary number) smartest people in at least the US & its allies, to bring to life a system that is focused on teaching the children basic, intermediate and advanced lessons on how our towns, cities, counties, states, coalitions, territories, country and allies function. That outlines the pros & cons of life critical knowledge, the failures of the past, what that failure taught us, how we decided on the solution as well as our first round successes, how those winners were found and how we can implement that into different situations.

If life imitates art and art imitates life, then every single American already knows how this will go terribly wrong in the future. All bow to our mighty Machine Overloards!!! jk jk jk lol

No, because what are the parents supposed to do?

Math, spelling handwriting. They wanna do away with the first two cause we have spell check and calculators on phones. Huh? Really? When I was a kid though they didn't teach us household budgets or how to balance a check book. That always shocked me.

Don't eat laundry soap

Don't put super glue in your hair lol