> I see no reason why people shouldn't be educated in more basic and practical things like computers

Because the teachers and education department are useless. My nephews had to get an iPad for their programming class, an expensive device (and all the problems with that) that is less capable and far less practical to learn programming on.

Imagine how much better school could be if kids had raspberry pis and and use free tools like gnuplot in their maths and physics classes.