replace it with a semester of “living in the world” lessons that might just be a week of driver’s ed, that field trip to the fire department, some first aid, just cram a semester full of basic adulting skills.

We used to call this “Home Economics” but that got stigmatized as the cake baking class girls took while the boys were in shop class, and then women doing housework became a politically charged issue so we deprecated even that.

Okay, but that isn’t what you said prior — that’s shifting the goalpoasts. You specifically said

Replace them with a semester of […] fire safety […]