Not buying what? That the coding instruction is happening, or that the skillset is less exclusive? My 14 year-old came to me to help him debug a Python script

Not buying what? That the coding instruction is happening, or that the skillset is less exclusive? My 14 year-old came to me to help him debug a Python script that he had to write for his Technology class. I didn't even know that they were teaching programming until then. And this is for a rural school district in farming country. So yeah, it's happening. As far as whether or not the skillset is less exclusive, I don't think that we have much to worry about. It doesn't seem that people are having less trouble learning to program today than they did 30 years ago when I was tutoring in CS. And this is with far more resources available now.