Common Misconceptions, Common Knowlegde and Wilderness Survival are
two three things i think children as young as kindergarden age should be educated.
Common Miconceptions:
I see so many people who think so many annoying wrong things, like going to space is just flying up to the point where theres no air, and then you apparently just levitates, some people believe programming is hacking, i was once writing a little thing for managing a few files automatically, a guy accused me of freaking hacking, kids who believe making video games is the art of opening up some sort of magical 3d level editor and hitting a few random keys, all that, it just makes me rage. To make the world a smarter(and better) place.
Common Knowlegde:
Recently a girl, at my age, asked me what kinda music i listened to, i said "jazz", she asked "what is a jazz?".. jesus? I find it startling how many people, including my mom are direction confused, they dont even know where north is, they dont know that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. I recently watched a TV program about unhealthy kids, they thought burger buns grew on trees, mixed up carrots with potatoes and didnt even fucking know what a Cucumber is. I believe people should have a class where all everyday/essential topic should be walked through, things like cooking, language beyond slang and everyday language. basic physics and essential history and culture.
We could also refine above things into teaching people critical thinking!Wilderness Survival:
So many people barely know how to knap or make a fire, how the hell would this world work without power, google and the internet? Things would go to hell. We need to teach the boys to stop playing Call of Duty and eating chips and learn to make a fire and hunt. We need to teach the teenage girls(that dosent know already) that fashion isnt everything, and a dark age is an age of compromises, those too small jeans can be used for other things than failing at looking pretty, for example, feeding a fire or cutting into useful cloth for example for bandaging a wound. If we stay this way, the next generation will be a bunch of Apple consumer slaves that can barely screw a lightbulb in place! A lil note:
No Sexism intended.
Just needed to vent out, sorry for any inconsistent "grmamar" grammar/pure bullshit, im heading to sleep.
Things i forgot but otherpeople reminded me of:
Swimming, many adults cant even swim!
UNARMED COMBAT TRAINING, because people a pushovers.
As a side note, I'm all for classes that teach 'real world' stuff that kids may never learn at home but will be inevitable anyways, but the examples in the OP are fairly vague. Stuff such as taxes, how insurance works, money management, how to get a job, social skills, and physical education classes that actually require physical effort would be great boon for any child being sent out into the world. Now-a-days, it's a blind baptism of stress and innocence, all of which can be avoided with just a few simple lessons that parents rarely teach their kids.
This so
fucking much 
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