Just remember: if you want to fix that, you're a racist http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/stop-thinking-that-coding-is-the-answer-to-all-of-societys-problem

Just remember: if you want to fix that, you're a racist http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/stop-thinking-that-coding-is-the-answer-to-all-of-societys-problems/ http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/stop-thinking-that-codi... On a more serious note, here is a list of complaints about education in America: 1) Teachers are remarkably anti-math in culture. This has an obvious set of effects. 2) The radical decentralization of responsibility means that all districts get ripped off on everything they have to purchase. 3) The radical decentralization of responsibility combined with wealth segregation means that poor children get poorly educated. 4) People who are nominally progressive think that gentrification is terrible instead of our first chance in fifty years to get wealthy people to pay for the education of poor children. So we're going to waste it and kick all the poor people out to the exurbs instead. 5) School boards are the worst possible case for democracy. They are too local for newspapers to cover. No one understands what they do. They regularly make terrible decisions, and are unaccountable because no one knows about it. Sometimes it's Scopes monkey-trial nonsense, sometimes it's corruption, sometimes it's just being a money-sink. 6) Higher education is promoted in a miserably hypocritical manner. If you're sending student loan money home to keep the lights on you shouldn't be getting a history major, not if you don't know the next step. If you tell someone who is sending student loan money home to keep the lights on that they shouldn't worry about their major, you should go to a special hell, where they can't mail you your pension. The defense of this is usually absurd bullshit about the importance of broad liberal education, and romantic notions about the pursuit of knowledge. A remarkable demonstration of arrogance and privilege from people who make their living denouncing the arrogance of privilege. Encouraging people to spend years of their life and go five figures into debt so that you can feel good about aristocratic conceits from old europe is awful. Anyway, the point is, K-12 education is systemically broken, and American education as a culture is opposed to a world in which the 'coming' geek gap was fixed.