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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by princekolt on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:57AM (#15161737)
But the simple knowledge of this fact is so scarce that it makes almost no difference. And since most schools don't care about coding (or, where I'm from for example, about anything not related to get the most students to pass the equivalent of SATs), this is not going to change soon.

I was so surprised when my father told me that back in the 80s, in a small city in the interior of Brazil, in a public school, he was taught BASIC as part of the school curriculum.

Over twenty years later, in a prestigious private high school in the capital city, coding was only mentioned once by a school director when shaming students for only using computers for "foolish tasks", while completely ignoring the fact his school didn't give a single coding class, not even as extra curriculum.

Programming should have the same importance status as maths in school, if not more.

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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by mistersquid on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:37AM (#15161967)
In the US, K-12 jobs teaching are neither prestigious enough nor well-compensated enough to attract/retain people who know how to code, which is different that teaching to code but an educator must know high level concepts to teach effectively. Anyone proficient enough to teach code is either working or consulting in the private sector.

I do wish US K-12 teachers were better compensated.

EDIT: readability.

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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by scarface74 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:20AM (#15161855)
I went to a small town public school in the late 80s and early 90s and we had an AppleSoft Basic course. I'm amazed that schools don't have that now.
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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by kazagistar on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:33AM (#15161931)
Not many people are qualified to teach programming in any way and also willing to work for abysmal school teacher salaries.
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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by newforice on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:09AM (#15161797)
"Programming should have the same importance status as maths in school, if not more."

It amazes me that it isn't the case, I assumed most High Schools if not grade schools were teaching some programming by now.

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