No, they don't. K-12 is strictly adherence to state standards education with very little room for "optional" coursework, and even where they is the option, the

No, they don't. K-12 is strictly adherence to state standards education with very little room for "optional" coursework, and even where they is the option, the staggering monotony and disdain a student would have for the primary subjects they spend 80% of their time in they will have no energy or effort left to be truly passionate about a choice subject (usually). IE, my 8-12th grades had strict guidelines : must finish algebra, must have a course in each of the 4 primary sciences, must have world and us history and government, must have literature classes covering 4 time blocks from early writing -> Renaissance writing -> new world writing -> modern writing. Must have gym, must have a foreign language (after 6 years of Spanish, and 2 years out of college, I can't remember a word of it since I never used it). I think I got one class per year I could "pick", and the closest to software / IT was web design which was just how to make a wordpress site, and never touched html / css / js.