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I'm going to be downvoted if I don't preface this statement: CompSci, know quite a few languages well enough. Good at it.

I sure as heck hope that when my kids are career age - they're doing something a bit higher up the stack than programming. Even if it's meta-programming. Programming is a convoluted way of interacting with business logic.

They already do. We don't have to touch a single assembly statement in our entire lives if we don't want to.

touche ;)

Why teach kids how to do anything? Why teach them math, swimming, writing, eating healthy, etc? You can find people who didn’t learn any of this stuff until they were 27 and “turned out fine.”

I completely agree here, it seems like they are just playing into education's concept of code=STEM job, or maybe it's a new Roomba recruitment drive...