Ideal High School Curriculum

Every few years, it seems, I revisit this concept. Last time I did was the summer of 2015. So here, once again, is an updated - though potentially subject to change - view of how I think U.S. high schools should actually function. At least for which courses students would be required to take (with a few variants for the super-advanced or struggling) throughout four years.

*Sorry for the table formatting - can't seem to fix it!*

Required Courses
Freshman	World History: Middle Ages to 20th Century. Includes Geography.	Performance Art: Dance, Music, Theater.	Physical Education and Health – Anatomy and Physiology, Physical Diseases.	Planetary Science: Astronomy and the Big Bang to Geology, Climate Science.	Logic and Algebra: Variables and Expressions, Linear Equations.	World Literature: Middle Ages to 20th Century.	Foreign Language I / ESL I
Sophomore	World History: 20th Century. Includes Geography.	Visual Art: 2D, 3D.	Physical Education and Health – Gender and Sexuality, Sexual Education.	Biology: Cells and Genetics to Evolution, Environmental Science. Alternate: AP Biology, Env Sci	Logic and Geometry: Euclidean.	World Literature: 20th Century.	Foreign Language II / ESL II
Junior	American History: Native Americans to Present. Alternate: AP U.S. Hist.	Performance / Visual Art Elective. Alternate: AP Art History, Music Theory, Studio Arts (2D, 3D, Drawing)	Physical Education and Health – Psychological and Psychiatric Conditions.	Chemistry:  Atoms and Elements to Compounds and Molecules. Alternate: AP Chem	Probability and Statistics: Data collection, plotting, Significance, Misuse and Detection, Correlation and Causation.	American Literature: ½ Prior to 20th Century, ½ 20th Century.	Foreign Language III / ESL III. Alternate: AP Chn, Fr, Ger, It, Jap, Lat, Sp Lan, Sp Lit
Senior	American Government: Includes Hum Rights. Alternate: AP Gov: U.S.	Economics: Budgeting, Taxes, Stocks. Alternate: AP Micro, Macro	Psychology and Ethics: Developmental Psych, Epistemology, Ethics. Alternate: AP Psych, Euro Hist, World Hist, Comp Gov, Hum Geo	Physics: Newtonian, Relativity, Quantum. Alternate: AP Phys 1+2, Elect, Mec	Pre-Calculus: Logarithms, Radicals, Functions, Trigonometry/ Calculus: Limits, Differentials, Integrals	English Electives. Alternate: AP Eng Lang, Eng Lit	Computer Science: Programming, Web Design. Alternate: AP Comp Sci, Comp Sci Prin

After School (Any years) (three years required):

Required:

Cooking/Nutrition – One semester

Parenting – One semester

Home Economics: Basic plumbing, maintenance, gardening, recycling, carpentry– One year

College Prep, Job Skills and Rhetoric – One year

Optional:

Yearbook – One year

Driver’s Ed – One semester

Drama Production – One Semester (can supersede a semester of a year-long required.) Limit four.

Sport: Team – Seasonal (can supersede anything else, ‘cause why fight it? It's not going away.)