yeah, it would be nice if we could roll the clock back to 1953, but it will take more than Sunday school to keep America competitive, we need American born matric talent, eventually China and India and others are going to develop economically to the point that their best and brightest want to stay in the motherland, and when that happens were going to need brains to take the place of people who would otherwise come to America, without them we are going to be screwed.
Very few of the American acomplishments of the 20th Century were done without imported brains. Unless America fundementally reforms education from play school to university (and I am not talking vouchers here) America will very quickly fall behind while this century is still young.