For whatever reason, the author and the comments are experiencing a huge disconnect in expectations. 1. The author appears to be talking about pre-university l

For whatever reason, the author and the comments are experiencing a huge disconnect in expectations. 1. The author appears to be talking about pre-university level CS education. 2. The "IT Professionals" and the commenters here appear to be talking about CS Degrees (undergrad and up) and their relevance to jobs/hiring. I do not see how those two connect. In fact, I argue that they shouldn't be related at all. Teaching children, especially at the age the author mentions - 12 year olds - is not about preparing them for future work. Most children at that age don't even know what they want to be yet. So what is taught and how it is taught cannot be judged by how useful it would be in employment. No one here is making any sense. I also find it funny that the author uses teaching a secondary language as a comparison because the manner in which the US (and other countries like Japan) teach secondary languages is all manners of messed up. The system and approaches used in secondary language education do not produce fluency or even long term retention.