I feel like this needs to be higher up. While of course any parent would want their child to meet and exceed any academic standards you or the school system set

I feel like this needs to be higher up. While of course any parent would want their child to meet and exceed any academic standards you or the school system set, childhood is the only time in your life where you're relatively free to make mistakes with friends and relationships, and that's how you learn to be a better person. It's a lot more difficult to learn that later in life than programming, in my opinion as someone who didn't start coding until he was in his early 20's but still struggles with relationships because of a unrelated, intense academic focus as a child.