I'd suggest that you don't need a CS degree to teach high-school level programming. I'd suspect many existing high school teachers, if given a tour of the invol

I'd suggest that you don't need a CS degree to teach high-school level programming. I'd suspect many existing high school teachers, if given a tour of the involved concepts and resources, would be able to lead a group of students through a programming course based around existing freely available materials. My reason being that IMHO exposure to what's possible with computers and access to machines with the tools for learning development is the only thing kids who are going to be decent programmers really need. My gut tells me kids who want to program and have the means are already are doing it, and the only ones we need to worry about are those without access to a decent computer at home. Kids who have these benefits but are too dim to google "how to make a computer game" or look up some tutorials on youtube should probably pursue other careers.