Maybe you could argue that the likelihood of having to put up or maintain a web site at some point in your life is ever increasing. Throw a birthday party for y

Maybe you could argue that the likelihood of having to put up or maintain a web site at some point in your life is ever increasing. Throw a birthday party for your kid? Make a web site... So general coding skills could be more on the level of general MS Office skills. Enough to write a job application letter. Of course not everybody will need it, but that goes for many things taught at school.