(This post is a work in progress! I thought I might share it early. :D
When I finish, I'll ping you.)
So I've been trying to think deeply about how to expand the curriculum of this school, to give successful students an advanced understanding of how the world works and how to operate in it, and I've done some online research about what the core learning areas are. A lot of what I've been searching of them, entire learning areas, fit into others, and a lot of them seem to be circumstantial subjects, but that's okay.
I want the experience of going to this school to be wholly and genuinely rewarding in the long run, so that people have more knowledge, thinking and logical ability and creativity, which was what all schools were designed for, while also learning strategy-planning, basic survival skills and general "morality" in the way that it does now. I'm still considering my idea I posted a while ago about adding more branches of subjects to the testing, the more difficult you choose your tests to be, while introducing all branches slowly in Lil Puss mode.
After all, knowledge is power.
Here is a list of main school subjects I've decided on so far (the list is subject to change):
-MATHEMATICS: Basic laws governing all of reality, and one of the only non-circumstantial subjects since the very idea of temporality is merely just another thing in the realm of mathematics. Mathematics makes for very practical advanced knowledge.
Some important branches of mathematics include hyperoperation and general arithmetic, algebra, calculus, geometry, trigonometry, topology, probability, etc. Almost every one of those concepts have something to do with spatial ideas.
-SCIENCE: Circumstantial mathematics governing a particular universe...this one. Science is crucial to know how physics and other real concepts work, which is in turn crucial to know how to manipulate the universe to one's will.
I think the main branches of science are physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, social and formal science. I'm not entirely sure actually - I looked it up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_science.
-LANGUAGE: Communicative sets of vessels for practical information conveyance between multiple individuals. Language is used since it's impossible for us to express raw information (information without context).
The important factors of proper linguistic syntax are spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalisation and structure. I looked it up and don't have the foggiest idea why capitalisation isn't just another part of grammar, but I can assure You mrdrnose can't even do that. In my opinion, the most important languages to learn are the ones used by the biggest contributors to society in general, as well as Esperanto since that's apparently going to be the global and national language; but they should also deviate from normal written and spoken languages, such as sign language, Braille and body language (if the last one even counts).
-HISTORY: Past events concerning everything in the universe.
-GEOGRAPHY: ...
-ARTS: The expression of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Some important branches of arts include craft, painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, theatre, dance, etc. And those are just the main ones - all forms of style are considered arts to some extent, such as fashion and gastronomy.
-TECHNOLOGIES: give me a description first.
Some important branches of technology include oh what's the freaking point. I'm. Too. Lazy.
Here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_Science_and_Technology
-PARANORMALITY: (I thought it would be fitting for a place like Mr. Strobovski's school, where even SCP's exist. It would be a secondary pseudo(?)-science subject dedicated to the study of all the paranormal objects and activities.)
-PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Development in physical exercise. I imagine that PE will be the central focus at the climax of the storyline, when there are no other subjects in focus, and that it will test strategical survival. On an unrelated note, I imagine the last teacher will either be Laura or Helpscreen, specialists in something advanced, not really any particular subject.
There's also "humanities and social sciences", something that teaches subjects like history, law, politics, religion, economy, anthropology, and other things. I'm not sure how this kind of subject would fit into the school of AEWVS, but basically I think it's about the studies of general society. Not sure how that one would fit in, but maybe it'd have something to do with the lore.
Of course, all this probably sounds very overwhelming to just a small team of staff run by an indie curriculum developer, which is why I actually propose that we get help and assistance in expanding the school. Seriously, a lot of us should help build floors, expand the storyline, set things into place, do voice acting, multilingual support, and all the rest of it. We just need to be accepted so we can actually start helping with all of these things so that mrdrnose doesn't have as much tedious work to do.
Anyway, this post isn't finished, as you can clearly tell, but bye for now!