Well, if the schools want to give a real live experience to the kids why they do not teach them "fire arms usage" or "raping" or "psicodelic substances".
I do not want to spend my life fixing my care, I want to work (in a productive invironment) to produce money to have some one fixing my car and I would pay him.
To tell you the truth, the PC market gives a lot of work to a lot of people, specially manofatures.
As I am so deep in to politics I can bet there is a political reson for PC domination. How many companies are manofacturing things for PC? millions!!! and most of them are imported overseas by poeple that manage some good amount of money that for sure ahve friend in some instances in the government. It is an industry of millions of $$$.
Macs are not that profidable from that point of view.
No wonder th space program have so many problems, there is a new generation of workers with a filosophy on making things that are going to give you errors later. When I was studing in Orlando FL there were coments about those things at NASA with the Mars travel.