Upvoted you because you do have a point there. But I still think it's flawed because I litterally was a 5th grader at that time. In my opinion coding is about understanding the concept, everything else is syntax, and for that you can just memorize keywords. At least I feel like my coding skills are very much decoupled from my reading/writing skills though I really don't know, so YMMV. When reading a book I have to read it linearily and hope the author wrote it in a way so i can understand everything at a point in a book if I have read everything before but I probably won't understand much by just reading the last page. When reading a large codebase I find myself wildly jumping around often ignoring stuff because it doesn't matter right now or assuming stuff because it's obvious or just not that important. For me that's a very different skillset than reading written text.

Last but not least a very provocative analogy but I don't have a better one right now. But for me "they shouldn't learn to code, they can't even spell everything correctly" sounds very much like "we shouldn't try to stop HIV in africa, they don't even have fresh water".

Again sorry, but nothing better comes to mind right now.