Jim - I'm trying to figure out how outsourcing has anything to do with education. I'm not prolific on either subject as might be the other board members, but to me it sounds as if you're equating a solid education as the key toward a person getting a job as a grunt factory worker. With that, in short, your argument's not working for me.
Furthermore, it's always been my experience that education - at the college level at least - is a means toward white-collar employment - which is top of the food chain in corporate America. CEOs, CFOs, etc. aren't currently farmed out to China,
AFAIK. As far as transcending the serious student, they aren't going to public elementary through to high school to flip burgers. They're usually in class with the idea their due dilligence and daily grind will pay off in a college education, and after college, a high-level job.
So please, show me where outsourcing and education go hand-in-hand. When I was in high school, the last thing I thought of was building Radio Flyer wagons - which are now assembled in Taiwan.