Computer science is highly interdisciplinary and syncretic and as such cannot be neatly fit into a first-order subject without diluting it or investing in lots

Computer science is highly interdisciplinary and syncretic and as such cannot be neatly fit into a first-order subject without diluting it or investing in lots of prerequisite instruction, which for the purposes of a compulsory schooling system is next to intractable. "Programming and scripting" classes are a different matter altogether with highly dubious benefits beyond far-fetched theorizing by its overly optimistic proponents. Too much faith is put on compulsory schooling. Everything must be coordinated and planned. The very idea that one might acquire programming as a means to a pursued end later in life appears to be anathema to many people, who instead advocate that a ritualistic drilling of how to write lines of ALGOL will mystically make people "technically literate" and appreciative.