English, because word history is fun, communication is important, and teaching kids that language is constantly evolving would be fun.
Citizenship
Starship Troopers style?
Anarchist’s Cookbook
How to adult.
Basically how to choose your internet and phone provider, compare the contracts etc. Same with power supplier. How to choose from the different suppliers and the impact of base price with the price per unit (and when it makes sense to choose a higher line price when the power price per unit is cheaper).
Insurance. Regulations for the driving license (like if you study and still are registered at home, you might have a hard time to make your license at your study place).
And all nitty picky things you have to remember when you grow up and rent your own place.
As well as learning and working contracts. Like how many vacation days are mandatory and what is usual.
Edit: If and how you do taxes. When they are mandatory and when they are optional.
Well, i guess you get the point. All those nasty responsibilities nobody explains you before being confronted with.
Physics. Sometimes I can’t resist nerding out about it and teaching it to others! I didn’t get the title of “physics girl” in school for nothing haha.
Would teach: Apathy
Why? Apathy
How to pass the final? Not show up.
Nobody likes a kiss ass!
Revolution
Media competency and how technology works. Because that includes things I’m good at, and it’s desperately needed.
Common sense/critical thinking 101.
It is utterly baffling watching some people just bumble through life completely clueless.
I have lost track of the number of adults who have no clue how do their taxes. They either have their parents do them or they pay someone to do them for themselves. I consider myself basically financially removed, but I still learned the bare minimum to be able to do my own goddamn taxes.
People don’t know the bare minimum about their vehicles and it ends up costing them thousands.
People are oblivious to their surroundings and never prepared for anything even slightly.
People just do things without a single thought towards the potential consequences of their actions.
History, with an emphasis on grassroots struggles. If labor history were a real course in schools, I’d probably actually go back to college for an associate’s to actually teach it
I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of “free-market” “laissez faire” capitalism in our American history class.
Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I’m frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.
Since you live in Texas, you might be interested in your own version of Blair Mountain, the Grabow Massacre during the Texas Lumber Wars
Earth Science!
Cmere class, look at these clouds! They’re really really cool!! Okay, now here’s a five gallon bucket of water, try to lift it. Heavy, right? Now imagine six hundred of these and look at that cloud again. That’s how much that sucker holds. Crazy, right?!
Now hold this rock. Pretty heavy. Throw it, it falls. Then what about hailstones that are that size or larger. How can they keep something like that, along with five hundred tons of water alllll up in the sky?
Today we gon learn
Uncle Billy Bob teach’ said we gon’ learn. We learnt lots t’day
A philosophy class on how to live a better life.
I’m an expert on doing the wrong thing. I could just “Costanza rule” it and teach them to do the opposite of what I did.
I’ve always wondered isn’t it a paradox though? If everything you choose to do is wrong, so you choose to do the opposite, that is also your choice so it must be wrong lol
Debate class. Have people choose a subject. Ask which side they want to support. Then assign them the opposite side. Get them to look at other angles of subjects
History
It’s due to my passion for the subject and hope that I could cultivate the tools for critical thinking in young minds.
That being said I’d be terrible at it.
-First day of School
-Students: Good morning MisterNeon.
-Me: Cram it you little shits! Today I’m going to teach y’all why Mexico is cool. Anybody who says the words “aliens” or “giants” is getting thrown through a window.
Assuming I’m given time to brush up on it, math probably. Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. I was good at those and enjoyed tutoring math when I was in college. Calculus is awesome but I’m too dumb to teach that to anyone.