Education in the US is a huge mess. How is a 13-week class in web development going to help low-income students? I'm not sure how many readers of HN attended l

Education in the US is a huge mess. How is a 13-week class in web development going to help low-income students? I'm not sure how many readers of HN attended low-income schools. The problem I see is that many that get out of low-income schools don't know basics like the commutative law of multiplication (a * b == b * a) or how to use a semicolon. The education deficit by the time they hit CC is so large that it's unreasonable to expect them to be successful at programming. I had low-income friends that took school seriously and these kids ended up in college on scholarships, but most of my classmates did not take school seriously. It wasn't a character issue that held them back, but more of a cultural issue. They were surrounded by people, friends and family, that didn't appreciate the value of education. These problems started early, in elementary school, and by high school they were too far behind to be successful and simply checked out at best or became disruptive and tried to hold everyone else back at worst. Very sad.