I can't hope to enumerate all topics they ought to cover, but math (arithmetic), history, science (scientific method), and language (reading, culture, literatur

I can't hope to enumerate all topics they ought to cover, but math (arithmetic), history, science (scientific method), and language (reading, culture, literature) seem to be pretty important cornerstones wouldn't you think? It's hard to imagine living in a modern world where citizens could not read, write, add, subtract, or conduct simple experiments.