Hello Lancelot,

I voted thumbs down to your post, so to speak, about public schools.

I did that because four decades ago, back when yes, students were learning well the math and multiplications tables wand writing and so on, um, hello, students were also learning coding. 

I know because I was there as a student.

Your post is anchored to the false notion that in order to beef up writing and math skills, we have to block exposure to coding. That is as silly a premise as saying that in order to beef up writing and math skills, we have to block social studies teaching of the Roman Empire, or saying we have to block literature teaching in the area of French books of the past two hundred years, or saying we have to block chemistry teaching in the area of acids and bases.

Your argument is not compelling and is fixated on an arbitrary target.