I think tailoring the distribution too closely to
the school curriculum, in college or high school, is
a mistake. We already know who the best students
are, that's what grades are for. QB is obviously
supposed to reward some slightly different set of
knowledge, unless we're going to add driver's ed, gym, and
other things that everyone does in school to the
canon.
Or in other words, QB can be the one place where
high school students who know "operas, philosophers,
or artists" or want to learn about them can be
exposed to them.
--M.W.