I completely agree, Margaret, and it is nonsense to say that all jobs in the future will depend on this knowledge - and even if they did, schools ought to have other priorities that must be solved first. When my son graduated he pointed out in his class photo his fellow graduates who could barely read or write, and as for the third 'R' - well, all arithmetic had been done by pocket calculators, they had no idea one could learn multiplication tables, and any mathematics beyond that had been glossed over. The culture among the students was that math is hard, no one understands this stuff and we need not try. Then they were given a meaningless roll of paper and told they had graduated grade 12. If an undergraduate degree has become diluted in value to the point that it no longer helps to find employment, why on earth would we think grade 12 has not suffered the same inflation? And in this setting we now must teach coding rather than basic literacy and math? Give me a break, indeed!