Just like how our education system is a zero-sum game; the simplistic notion that our "schools are failing" results in a limitless demand for more resources for the institutions and its supports (books, teachers, computers, real estate, etc), and more time (for more homework, more school, more testing, etc)...and all of it ultimately leads to a society that produces robot-humans that ensure a docile, malleable workforce to meet the growing demands of corporate capitalism.