From the little I know about VB.net, it's much more approachable for people not cut out to program (ie non-engineer types) then any other mainstream language on

From the little I know about VB.net, it's much more approachable for people not cut out to program (ie non-engineer types) then any other mainstream language on the back-end. Don't forget - the high school education system is set up so you learn what you have to in order to tick a box and pass your exams, the fact that something might be relevant/useful to your career is an accident. From that perspective, the teacher probably just wants to teach lowest-common denominator easy programming to tick the box. I agree with Ryanto - if you want to learn Python (or any other language) it's better to do it in your own time.