Everyone should know a bit about the law, everyone should be able to do their accounts, everyone should be able to mend their car (maybe less so with electric c

Everyone should know a bit about the law, everyone should be able to do their accounts, everyone should be able to mend their car (maybe less so with electric cars..), everyone should be able to do basic first aid and look after their health, everyone should understand a bit about politics, everyone should know how money works ... literally everyone believes their job is a special case that ought to be taught in schools. The fact you believe everyone should learn some basic coding just shows you work in tech. It doesn't make it true. For a start, very few people actually apply the skills they learn at school until at least a decade afterwards (learning at around 10 - 12 years old, getting a first proper job where skills matter in their early 20s). Do you really think basic coding taught today is going to apply to a farming job in 2032 in the light of Github Copilot, visual programming, the death of filesystems and the rise of iOS/Android file pickers etc? Of course not.