I'm currently studying High School (In the Systems (sysadmin/programmer) branch)). Everything in Argentina can be awful, but for sure it's not education: even

I'm currently studying High School (In the Systems (sysadmin/programmer) branch)). Everything in Argentina can be awful, but for sure it's not education: even if we are not learning Haskell I'm really pleased with the education I'm recieving; we use free software when possible (LibreOffice, LibreCAD, MySQL, etc.) and we learn languages like C or Java (OK, not the best in the block, but at least it's not VisualBasic). Sadly we can't get good programming books here (Such as O'Reilly, Apress or books like CLRS, APUE or SCIP). So we either rely on our teachers or in crappy, old books. Teaching 15-16 years old to program is not easy, mainly because many of those really don't care about school... we start by learning Algoritms as in little pseudocode programs, then we move to a software called PSeInt which is basically an IDE for writing pseudocode (Pseudocode in Spanish... ugh) and finally we learn our first language, which is chosen by the teacher (We are learning C). I've been programing since I was 9. And it's interesting to see this from other perspective, the teachers are young (26-36 aprox.) which is good, because they know about the latest technologies are have similar hobbies to us. But it's also bad because they don't have a lot of experience). But so far, so good, the education in the Systems branch is really good: but beware, not everything is like this, for example we are lacking a Chemistry teacher and we only had like 4 classes of Physics in a year, not to mention our Mathematics teacher is a disaster. The school isn't in a good condition either, we have leaks when it rains and we are lacking a few walls and windows... but hey, it does it's job.