Hey Pandas, If You Could Invent A Subject In School, What Would It Be? (Closed)

Life skills: budgeting, critical thinking, car and home care, clothes care and repair, first aid, writing a CV, basic law and individual rights, communication skills, etc.

Common sense and Practical thinking. So basically it'll be about thinking and acting rationally and about what could be the best course solutions to everyday situations and problems.

Sign language. Everyone should know it.

Sleeping

self defence

Basic Human and legal rights. The second you become a young adult you need to be taught things like
When you have to talk to police and when you don't.
Denial of services
Use of public property
What is and how to report discrimination.

mine would be notes :) id do lots of research for each subject write all info on a pdf then let students write them then study it to help :)

Career/growth planning. Basically a subject about how to pick a good job/career/life plan for yourself.

Video Game Lore Analysis

Basic First Aid and survival: CPR (during pandemic, maybe just the chest massage part which is more important than the breathing), what to do in fires, accidents (e g. not move helmets in motorcycle accident, etc), heimlich maneuver, how to recognize medical emergencies, and for the US, maybe even how to deal with school shootings (sad that I should even mention this)(one tip I learnt is play dead and cover yourself with the blood of other victims), how to leave signs if you are kidnapped (there is hand gesture for this by the way, shown in tiktok). Regarding medical techniques, especially in rural areas where you can't get a doctor/ambulance fast enough, this can save a life. Most of these things are simple and do not require that much scientific preparation, just a bit of practice.

Networking and social inclusion. How do people meet other people who can help each other get a head and meet goals, for business and just making friends.
Body language science would be super helpful for those who are socially awkward and prefer to observe others before interaction.

Tbh, I think all the existing classes need a major overhaul and improvement. More encouragement of independent thinking, allowance to question materials being taught, acceptance of out of class research and studies to be put towards grade or added to topics being taught.
Less repetitive memorization style learning and more class engagement.
Would be great if Art had more focus and funding, and more colour theory, explanation of light and shadow, proportions, experimentation of new ideas, values, etc. There should be more diversity of mediums, such as oil paint.

Kid Napping class. a class where kids can nap/read/other during the school day.

how to handle rental places and more financial skills, how to build good credit/what to avoid.

Civility 101

Courtesy, respect, and appreciation for others.
Teamwork and flexibility.
How to be open to other peoples opinions, thoughts and ideas, etc.

Morse code.

Not a class, maybe. I would have liked more than two internships during school. Or maybe something like trial days… We (in Germany) do two internships between 6th and 11th grade. We have to go to the workplace we think we would like to work at in the future and ask/ apply for an internship ourselves. Then we „work“ there for two weeks and have to write a report about it for our school. It is normally unpaid but more often then not we get a little compensation. Plus: it might lead to an apprenticeship (we do 3 year long apprenticeships to learn a work/ craft from the bottom up. It‘s half at the work place and half in a special school - and it is paid and has all benefits like paid vacation and such). You need an apprenticeship if you want to work in certain fields. But anyway: I would have liked more than two internships.

Organization skills in home and at work.

A class that explains the latest phases. Like the latest clothes and junk.

Training (not teaching) independent thinking. Discussing how perception colors your reality, how different news media report the same political event (I don't want to push anyone to take sides, rather just be aware that there are different ways of looking at the same thing), monitoring changes in our own views in life at different ages and even at different times in the day, how experience will sometimes make us look for patterns, which is an evolutionary trait that can protect us or alternatively and unconsciously create prejudice... Mastery of thought is a wonderful thing, most of us cannot harness this power, and many of us are carried away by it being used indiscriminately (worrying instead of being proactive, for example)

Animal rights. Learning about animal testing and proper care of pets and stuff. I know at least middle schoolers could take it.