> I keep seeing the “push for coding in early education” like it’s a new thing. After your generation public schools started dropping all of the useful labor-s

> I keep seeing the “push for coding in early education” like it’s a new thing. After your generation public schools started dropping all of the useful labor-skills courses. No woodworking shop, no auto repair, nothing was taught anymore that could result in a splinter or a finger-chopping. The extent of my public-school coding education started and ended with cheating my way through math by programming a TI-82.