I was part of the spectrum of students who hated school and all subjects these schools covered. I do feel thankful for relatively strong reading and writing ski

I was part of the spectrum of students who hated school and all subjects these schools covered. I do feel thankful for relatively strong reading and writing skills, which I credit my 5th grade English teacher and a technical writing instructor in college. All my other English and writing classes seemed useless. Even though I'm grateful for these classes today, I still hated them at the time. I feel that I would have hated any coding classes just the same. I would have put in the bare minimum to pass, and would have forgotten everything I learned before I had a chance to do anything useful with it. If I were to talk to my past self about learning to code, that person would have protested about already having too much homework and difficult classes. Where would coding fit within a typical workload? Would it have to knock something else off the schedule? Would it add more homework? Would it burn out young brains who already have to sit through nearly a full work day of classes? I already had Math teachers calling me out in class to make sure I was paying attention and I could solve problems they were working on. The language (Spanish for me) instructors wouldn't leave me alone. Thank goodness, the science instructor let me kick back and chill out. Sorry, coding instructor, I have no more mental bandwidth to deal with you. School started to feel pointless after 10th grade (sophomore in high school.) Maybe learning to code fits best in those last couple of years when students are closer to graduating into the real world. But that's not really teaching kids to code at that point. That's more like prepping young adults with a potential technical skill they could use when they get released. Good luck to them getting a job if they don't go on to graduate college. I don't know that teaching kids to code is worth the investment. They aren't going to retain much if they don't do it regularly throughout school. It's not important enough to be part of the core. On graduation, you would still have kids with no college degree and rusty coding skills, who would have to learn a lot on the job. Or you would have those who would go on to college and do well enough without having learned to code before college.