I totally agree. But most high school computer teachers simply aren't that sophisticated. At the very least, the poor guy would need something like Dev Bootcamp

I totally agree. But most high school computer teachers simply aren't that sophisticated. At the very least, the poor guy would need something like Dev Bootcamp or an intensive General Assembly course to even scratch the surface of modern software development. Who's paying for that? If this guy actually had modern software development skills, he's have the option of getting twice the pay of his current job of being a teacher/programmer/recruiter/promoter/psychiatrist/policeman/administrator/coach (possibly)/network admin (possibly)/ ... ad infinitum, and with a less critical audience of parents, students, and administrators. Our disjointed education system has done a pretty crappy job of anticipating the software revolution and gearing up for it. I mean think about it, even in higher ed, software development/engineering as a discipline separate from computer science and computer engineering is not even 10 years old in many places. At most ed schools, software education is just a component of overall tech ed, if it's available at all, and specializing in tech ed is a good way to make yourself expendable by not being certified in a "core" subject. And with most K-12 curriculum priorities being set by individual local districts and schools, it seems hardly probable that administrators, overburdened as they are trying to increase test scores in core subjects, are going be able to sense and react to long-term economic trends by beefing up their software instructional staffs.