You've also got the almighty gender disparity problem again, in reverse. Teaching and programming have almost mirror-opposite gender splits[1][2]. Without goi

You've also got the almighty gender disparity problem again, in reverse. Teaching and programming have almost mirror-opposite gender splits[1][2]. Without going into the debate about the programming gender disparity and lighting that fire, if you've got very few teachers from the subset of the population that for whatever reason correlates with computer programming, you're likely to end up with very few school teachers that are interested enough or qualified to teach it. I thank my stars that my high-school chemistry teacher had sons that grew up in the Apple II era to be computer programmers and that she thought it was important enough to teach an elective in it. [1]http://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-gender-gap http://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-ge... [2]http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender-gap-where-are-the-female-programmers/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender...