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Title    Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages
Date    Sunday September 24 2017, @11:02AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the Programming-Jobs dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/09/23/0123211

Anonymous Coward submitted:

Commentary from The Guardian

The rationale for this rapid curricular renovation is economic. Teaching kids how to code will help them land good jobs, the argument goes. In an era of flat and falling incomes, programming provides a new path to the middle class – a skill so widely demanded that anyone who acquires it can command a livable, even lucrative, wage.

This narrative pervades policymaking at every level, from school boards to the government. Yet it rests on a fundamentally flawed premise. Contrary to public perception, the economy doesn't actually need that many more programmers. As a result, teaching millions of kids to code won't make them all middle-class. Rather, it will proletarianize the profession by flooding the market and forcing wages down – and that's precisely the point.


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  1. "Anonymous Coward" - http://yahoo.com/
  2. "Commentary from The Guardian" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22389

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