Science and especially Physics is not a required subject in HS and Universities any more.
We now have several generations of science-ignorant people in positions of power.................
Besides science, logic and rhetoric need to be required subjects.
Our young people go out in to the world as sheep amongst the wolves, unable to defend their minds against the predators of Global Warming, Communism and COVID.
They need to be able to recognize a fallacious argument or a false dilemma when they see it.
Semantics would also be very useful today because it is the meaning of words that today is used to manipulate the young today. I can’t keep up with the ever changing meaning of words today.