I've always felt US mathematics education is a case study in what happens when "lies for children" goes terribly wrong because the teachers never actually encou

I've always felt US mathematics education is a case study in what happens when "lies for children" goes terribly wrong because the teachers never actually encounter a version of the field that isn't a lie. My experience volunteering in an AP CS class makes me wonder if something similar is happening in K12 CS at the moment. The students knew by heart the JavaDoc for String.format but struggled with loops. The teacher also struggled with simple nested for loops. Kind of made me want to throw away the damn laptops and just spend some time solving problems on pencil and paper...