• fractal
    +5

    I get your point and fully agree, but it's much easier to teach kids excel and powerpoint than programming. I am not defending it, it's just the way things are and public education targets the minimum-common denominator. Now I do prefer to have mandatory programming and have a 25% of kids having a grasp of what is it than none of them until later in their learning career or never, which is probably what is happening right now with mathematics (https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014024rev.pdf). Also, you are going to be hard pressed to find teachers literate in digital literacy, and I am afraid that it's only going to get worse because of the widespread use of mobile platforms, which in my opinion dummyfies the user.