You're naive if you believe that the same public schools which barely get Algebra I right will turn around to start properly teaching discrete mathematics. Exc

You're naive if you believe that the same public schools which barely get Algebra I right will turn around to start properly teaching discrete mathematics. Except they won't even do that, because the proposed "computer science" courses will be little more than rote exercises in learning an ALGOL-like notation. It most certainly will not impart any fundamental level of understanding, but quite to the contrary a very specific and wrong one. Learning a notation without knowing what problems to solve is useless, and will not leave anyone informed. We're already struggling with the fact that even a lot of professional programmers don't really have the fundamentals down, but are stuck accepting various abstractions as absolutes. Making "computer science" (code monkeying) a compulsory school subject will worsen this.