I know for a fact that every middle school in my immediate area teaches computer programming of some kind. It's an elective but it's available. As for it bein

I know for a fact that every middle school in my immediate area teaches computer programming of some kind. It's an elective but it's available. As for it being required of every student I don't know that I agree with that. I work with "non-computer" people who I swear to you lack basic problem solving skills (by their own admission they are "emotionally intellegent"). I'm not sure those people would be capable of understanding and implementing the basic logic structures needed to program and I'm not sure it's fair to set them up for failure. I think this is the reason that classes like Physics are also elective. Everyone should have a basic understanding of Physics but I'm not sure you can require that of people who aren't math inclined (remember you can graduate High School having only taken first year algebra)