It also doesn't matter if other countries made A to the fourth power, Google is still started in America.
What we need is kids that can think outside of the box, not get 3000 points on science tests.
Beside, markets doesn't exists when government basically provide education for "free". Kinda hard to have a market when the government basically take money from you. If you don't take your kids to public schools, you get less benefit if any. In basically every first world countries, education is provided for you. There's no markets in other countries too.