Ok, I looked it up and apparently it was an April Fool's Day joke: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149804404/n-y-preschool-starts-dna-testing-for-admission http:

Ok, I looked it up and apparently it was an April Fool's Day joke: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149804404/n-y-preschool-starts-dna-testing-for-admission http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149804404/n-y-preschool-starts... I've assumed this was true for the last 3+ years. I'm not sure if I'm gullible, or if they should care more about journalistic standards? It seemed plausible to me because that's about the age I'd start teaching a kid to program. C++ is obviously the wrong choice, but I think a 3-year-old could start learning Python.