Programming is such an easy field to get started in, I'm tempted to suspect that if you need a teacher to teach it to you, you aren't really interested in it.
What about kids that haven’t been exposed to programming or CS and have no idea whether or not they would be interested?
Didn't most people here start that way? Maybe I'm just projecting, but I assume that most people in this industry got into programming on their own without any adult introducing it to them.
My parents learned a bit about programming so they'd know what I was blathering about.
The 1980s were full of programmers who were entirely self-taught, a lot of them as kids. Many begged their parents to get them a home computer.