I can imagine a situation a few hundred years back when an adult would have said with scorn, "Teaching children to write? Ridiculous! That's what we keep the priests to do!"
I believe it was an article in the G&M in which the authoress likened learning coding to her experience learning cursive writing -- in my day known as "grown-ups writing."
Whether coding should be taught, whether it is necessary to know how to do code, can best be judged by the much younger generation who live in that world. Intelligent persons do not heap scorn on what they do not understand nor on skills they do not possess.