You've probably toured three or four campuses by now. Same pitch every time: a shiny STEM high school lab, a wall of acceptance letters, a robotics team that won last spring. After a while it blurs together and you're left wondering which one actually gets your kid ready for a world that won't stop shifting. I've watched schools open, rebrand, and close over most of a decade. Here's what nobody puts on a brochure: the building tells you almost nothing. A random Tuesday in a c