Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools
In Japan, English is already mandatory, yet, English fluency sucks. Japan recognizes the problem, but doesn&#x27;t know what to do about it. Basically, English education has yet to succeed. [1][2]<p>This is the thing about Japan. They can make these moves that are incredibly progressive and ambitious -- visionary even, yet, they really have no idea how to go about doing it.<p>As it stands, they don&#x27;t have enough teachers that can program, so teachers from other subjects will be filling in picking up the material from textbooks as they go along.<p>From what I&#x27;ve witnessed from my school years, I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them. It happens whenever there is an English native speaker in a Japanese English class (guilty as charged), and it will happen whenever there is a real programmer in one of these &quot;programming&quot; classes -- at least for the foreseeable future.<p>---<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japantimes.co.jp&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;editorials&#x2F;disappointing-levels-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japantimes.co.jp&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;editorials&#x2F;di...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japantoday.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;view&#x2F;whats-wrong-with-english-education-in-japan-pull-up-a-chair" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.japantoday.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;view&#x2F;whats-wron...</a>