Well, both have enough documentation that you can learn them without the need for a formal curriculum, and both are certainly worth learning - the .net VM is am

Well, both have enough documentation that you can learn them without the need for a formal curriculum, and both are certainly worth learning - the .net VM is among the best of its kinds. Since a lot of VB.net documentation is in the form of expensive books, while Python documentation can be had for free, convince your teacher to use VB.net, and use your school as a resource to pay for your books.