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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @10:51AM
Everything in the future is only going to be more and more computer based. Internet of Everything? That shit is not Legos or crayons.
A general understanding of how computers work is extremely important, even if the only byproduct is awareness of security and protecting yourself. Everyone should also learn the basics of how economies work (to protect themselves against the governmental financial policies that are bad for the citizens) and nutrition & gardens/farming/growing your own food (because eating is ridiculously important).
You want to "take back" some of those tech jobs from non-Americans (in your terms "brown people")? Teach every American the basics so those jobs are not "jobs" anymore. No one should ever be stuck on a tech support call for 20 minutes in order figure out that the battery in their wireless mouse needs to be replaced.
Up until 100 - 200 years ago people still used to be able to do most things for themselves. Then "progress" started chipping away at self sufficiency. Progress is not bad, but it has created lazy and complacent people. Today most Americans (and probably most people in general) can't do shit for themselves because they've accepted that most "jobs" are somebody else's job.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 14 2015, @12:44PM
This is truly an undesirable trait (just ust ask FBI/NSA).
It is not, repeat NOT, the citizens job to protect themselves (why! this sound terroristic already!!) It is the cops and govt agencies privilege and duty to do it, how else we could justify the robb... pardon my foul mouth... I mean... taxes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford