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posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-will-prove-interesting dept.

Within a few years, every single student in the San Francisco Unified School District will be studying computer science, at all grade levels.

The city’s Board of Education unanimously approved the measure during its weekly meeting on Tuesday evening.

"Information technology is now the fastest growing job sector in San Francisco, but too few students currently have access to learn the Computer Science skills that are crucial for such careers," Board President Emily Murase said in a statement on Wednesday. "We are proud to be at the forefront of creating a curriculum that will build on the knowledge and skills students will need starting as early as preschool."

According to the district, computer science classes are relatively rare across the United States.

"Currently, no national, state, or local standards exist for Computer Science and the academic research in Computer Science education is quite limited," the board wrote. "As such, a cohesive progression of Computer Science knowledge and skills does not yet exist."

It's the year 2015. Why isn't CompSci a mandatory part of the curriculum everywhere in America? It was at my gymnasium (academic high school) in Germany, and that was 25 years ago.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday June 14 2015, @08:56AM

    that she had to take trigonometry so she would be accepted to college where she majored in forestry, with the intention of being a park ranger.

    The best Dad could come up with is that one needs trig to measure the height of a tree which strictly speaking is true but real foresters use a simple table.

    I myself would have been totally into computer science in the first grade but most kids I knew would have been totally stymied, if they were interested at all. It's unlikely we could find the teachers.

    Despite they insults they receive at the hands of engineering majors, there are many good reasons to study liberal arts. One is that one has aspirations of being a poet.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:36AM (#196063)

    Poetry is for dead people from the 19th century, dude. Today's hip 21st century poets accompany their poetry with unoriginal repetitive soundtracks, call it popular music, and spend their copious free time tweeting about the piles and piles of money they can make by repeating a few words over and over and over.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:51AM

      ... in which an expatriate American manic depressive lives in Istanbul. The author didn't know much about manic depression so he researched it then stumbles across my first page. With my permission it's in his book, I have a signed copy but I have such a poor memory for the names of things that I do not recall the title or author. I'll dig them up somehow.

      Anyway the guy is manic when he "composes" my poem:

      Pitter Patter
      Flitter Flatter
      Wop De Who De Who

      I Am Magic
      Life Is Tragic
      Who The Hell Are You?

      I have no memory of composing it; I found it in my dream journal. It's in my handwriting so I know I have to have written it.

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      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:58AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @09:58AM (#196071)

        about gay niggers, but I don't know how gay niggers are meant to behave, because I don't know any gay niggers. I did a little bit of research and I stumbled across a short film documentary on the subject. It's been most illuminating.

      • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:49PM

        by JNCF (4317) on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:49PM (#196145) Journal

        I love finding mystery-poetry in my journals!

        • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:55PM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:55PM (#196148) Journal

          But your journal is empty, so you cannot find mystery-poetry there.

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          • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:27PM

            by JNCF (4317) on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:27PM (#196158) Journal

            My SoylentNews journal is empty, so you have a very low probability of finding mystery-poetry there.