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Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by jacquesm on Friday March 11, 2016 @03:53AM (#11265501)
> Think they'll teach them Python or Swift?

Those will not be a career path for much longer.

> Conversely, I fully expect to start "outsourcing" my web dev work to my children when they are 13.

Child labor got outlawed long ago, which is one of the reasons a lot of countries have mandatory education. High school is about much more than learning programming language or marketable skills, that's what you have secondary education for. Social interaction and other related skills are one of the big take-aways from regular school that are hard to replicate, also, that big bad world will still be out there when your children reach adult age and they then won't be prepared to interface with that.

Maybe consider moving to a place where schools are not useless, filthy, full of drugs and gangs if you really wish to solve this. And if the high schools are full of filth, drugs and gangs today what guarantees do you have that the community college won't be the same?

(And if the community college can keep it's grounds clean today, why can't the highschools?)

Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by restalis on Friday March 11, 2016 @07:27AM (#11266159)
"Those will not be a career path for much longer."

How can you tell?

EDIT: Swift being dependent for the most part on someone's ecosystem - maybe, but Python?

Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by agumonkey on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:53AM (#11266043)
Python made a nice nest in many places what makes you say it won't last ?
Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by return0 on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:05AM (#11266348)
Who knows, it might be a favorite language when the AI programmers rise up.
Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by tn13 on Friday March 11, 2016 @04:00AM (#11265524)
I don't think parents making their children work for an incentive is child labor.
Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by jacquesm on Friday March 11, 2016 @04:03AM (#11265530)
That depends on the degree.
Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by pc86 on Friday March 11, 2016 @09:28AM (#11266771)
> children

> work

Yes, child labor.

Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries... by tn13 on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:36PM (#11284156)
Yeah children working on home work is child labor I guess.