Debt, loans, mortgages, interest, investments, retirement plans, etc. These are important things for everyone to understand. When I look around, I think a lot of people would be better off if they had a better understanding of finances, but I rarely look at people and think their lack of programming know-how is holding them back.
We are not talking about what is most important we are talking about what is most useful powerful for someone who today is in school and need to have some skills for the future.
Are you seriously telling me that if you had to choose for your kid you would tell them to learn accounting and not programming?
If you had one week to sit down with every person in this world, I think that time would be better spent discussing finances, investments and retirement, instead of an introduction to variables, if/then statements, and loops.
It doesn't matter what you think would be better what matters is whether programming contrary to accounting can be seen as a language or not and is the reason why it should be taught.
Just putting some arbitrary other field in there is what is missing the point whether that is accounting, CPR, sports, history and so on.
You can put anything in but programming is different since it potentially can contain all the other fields in it's ability to simulate them all.
You can't simulate the world in 3d with accounting, you can't create digital maps, program airplanes, music applications, steering and so on.
With programming you can simulate more or less anything you want even accounting software.
Thats why it should be taught.
Edit: Care to elaborate why that comment should be downvoted?