in reply to Re: Computer Education in Public Schools in thread Computer Education in Public Schools
I definitely agree that programming-related instruction should be mostly optional. I can understand having all kids do a little Logo and a little QBASIC in the elementary school computer lab, but any more in-depth and technical programming classes should definitely be optional. You'd be doing more harm than good by forcing people into the class that hate the subject matter, they'll just distract the people who are there to really learn.
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