> But not dumbing down - skilling up

But, you cannot have Wall Street consolidated market winners if you do that! How dare you!

I saw this first hand growing up. The school system had a couple of programming courses a few years before I got into the high school, and then it got all new computers and magically reduced computer education to only a set of Microsoft Office courses offered.

Who needs programming? The school knew we would all only need Word and Excel at any "office job" we could possibly ever get ...