I help out teaching kids programming at a code club in my local library. I don't do it because I want ever larger numbers of kids to code, but because I believe

I help out teaching kids programming at a code club in my local library. I don't do it because I want ever larger numbers of kids to code, but because I believe in equality of opportunity (the library is free to all), and it's fun and enlivening to engage with children. Some of the kids are focused and enjoy learning, others really want to play games. Some are just bored (stashed there by parents grateful to be able to browse books in peace), or are just accompanying more engaged siblings). It's perfectly obvious that, like every other activity, engagement in programming comes from a kernel of indigenous interest (wherever this originates). What's even more obvious is the cruelty and blind unreality of trying to mash people into a mould dictated by a so-called 'economy'.