Traditional religious and family values.
Morals and ethics...Respecting yourself and others
Leadership and setting examples
Volunteering at home, at school and in your community.
Personal and family economics. Learning about saving, debt, investing, budgeting,
Earning a living...all the various things people do to make money and keep society functioning.
Ways we strengthen our minds and bodies and what to avoid.
I'm sure there are many others we could add to the list that would build wisdom, strength and character in young people.
The thing about family values is that each family is different. How can you make a public school curriculum that reflects 100% on each student's family's ethics/morals, personal/family economics, religion, etc.? This sort of thing is perfect for homeschooling, however, or at least be covered by every child's parent outside of public school.
Key word is "traditional". This means, non-woke, where work and discipline is valued and taught. Where people of all faith backgrounds shared a common element of respect for each other. Where students learned from examples set by their parents who stayed together and divorce was rare. Where kids learned responsibility at an early age. Where parents looked out for each others kids. The counter-culture of the 60's started the downhill slide. We need to get back to American culture of patriotism, belief in God, where welfare was very rare and not a lifestyle. We need to learn from our mistakes and admit that this social experiment we've been conducting has been an abject failure.
Sounds good, but what makes you think people of all faith and backgrounds share any common element of respect for one another? We have had people pouring in from our borders for 2+ generations along with the welfare state subsidizing the unaccountable. Look at Southern California, Texas or areas with high black population. I would never send my child to a public school in those places. High crime, violence, no respect for law and order, and no respect for others. What American values do we have in common with such people? If you've ever lived in these places you'd see that some cultures are absolute filth bordering on barbarism. We can't put the proverbial 'genie back in the bottle' when it comes to decades on unchecked immigration plus a rampant welfare state, so what's to be done? This very thing was a major contributing factor to what broke Rome and will be this country's undoing if the petrodollar doesn't collapse it first.
If you view it as insurmountable then you've failed before you tried. Perhaps I have an advantage of age because I remember a time when people did respect each other. It's the way we were brought up. There were always contentious elements wanting to break the rules but mostly kids were raised to respect their elders and to respect authority of your parents and those of others. You respected teachers, police, religious figures, service people, not because of who they were but what they represented. In school we said the Pledge of Allegiance, we stood for a moment of silent prayer, we dressed according to a dress code. Yes sir, yes ma'am, please and thank you were instilled in us. Men opened doors for women, we seated the women before we took our seats. Why? Because our parent taught us to do so.
Society was more civil, respectful and polite. We have a road map we can follow if these things start in the home. I know it sounds impossible but that's only because we've lost our collective memory of how much better we functioned when we gave and received respect and learned that at an early age. It's now rare, but when you meet a respectful and polite young person today you are left with a good impression and the knowledge that good parents still exist.
This is why you TRAIN civic duty in at a young age, exactly so that this baseline is established.
Yes, I'm saying it's the parent's responsibility to teach a child morality and religion, not the state's. How can a one-size-fit-all curriculum even be possible if we have a 100 different religions and cultures residing in this country thanks to decades of unchecked immigration. If Christian values are taught, the atheists will be offended and so on and so forth. With all this multiculturalism in our country, who dictates which viewpoint is the right one?