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> I really wish our primary education had any other IT classes than learning powerpoints, emails and making those funky 3D titles in word(I think this might be
by badlucklottery 5y ago
> I really wish our primary education had any other IT classes than learning powerpoints, emails and making those funky 3D titles in word(I think this might be changing?).
In the US there's definitely a big effort to have CS/programming courses in high schools but the big problem is finding qualified teachers. Since teachers in the US tend to get paid much less than even low-end software developer jobs in the same city, most people with any CS skill tend to go into the software industry instead of teaching.
- albrewer 5y agoI really want to be a teacher. I cannot, in good faith to my family, lower their standard of living to the point where we could afford for me to be one. A 1st year teacher where I am makes about 60% of my current salary, and that was true even before I switched over to software. My first job out of college as a mechanical engineer, I made ~$60k a year, equivalent to roughly $70k nowadays. A new high school teacher in Texas makes about $50k in my area. The difference is that, in a decade, my salary doubled; theirs went up by about 10%. I would take a pay cut to work as a teacher, especially for the ~70 working days off, which is about triple what I have now. A 50% cut isn't feasible though.