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Heh. Speeches to 6-year-olds are a whole separate form of art, sure.

Well, the bigger schools around here typically have one person (or possibly more) for that too on the staff, but they get to teach too.

We have that happen in school premises though.

Rudiments of dancing is in the phys ed curriculum. As to how it got there...

Conscripts on the leadership track need to have some background in it anyway. Officers are expected to be gentlemen and all that. The state is merely being consistent. ;-)

(The person who wrote the original phys ed curriculum back in the day was an army officer. They haven't rewritten it from scratch since then.)

The later developments have skewed the thing badly off base, though.

Agricultural studies had lots of this. "Ear protection must be worn when feeding the pigs." ... "Now, this here is the manure spreader..."

Here student elections are considered part of the social studies curriculum. Campaigns too. Complete with actual politics. Compulsory to some extent.

Fashion is ... well. There's some under handcrafts making your own clothes. Plenty more in the appropriate vocational curriculums, of course. ("Any volunteers for a free haircut? We need guinea-pigs...")

We've had govt standard tests regularly for a while. That's part of the govt tracking school performance.

We also have tests standardized by the employers' unions, come to think of it. And the farmers and foresters unions. Not mandated by the govt, usually, but ...

Shouldn't these get some consideration in the Social Studies curriculum anyway? Along with the rest of the justice system, tax and employment law, government structure, international politics, the works ...

Well, some of the stuff looks bad by itself but not all. The rest is just stuff that can be botched up really bad in the implementation stage, mainly by giving too much resources for it.

Oh, and vocational schools (where a lot of this would be happening) aren't actually clbuttified as "academic" to begin with.

IIRC most of the listed stuff can be considered to be "available" in the education system here, in the category of optional studies, but the amounts may be rather slight, or the lessons may happen, say, 8 to 9 PM ... (I guess I could have taken fashion design or some such instead of Latin then.)

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