You have hit the nail right on the head.  Everybody + opportunity + non-mandatory. This concept of equal opportunity seems to have disappeared in the last 5 years and I&#x27;m heartened to see people still talk about equal opportunity (vs the fallacy of equality), even if the media doesn&#x27;t discuss opportunity anymore.<p>I was a kid who was writing assembly at about 10 years old because I loved it. I saved up to buy my own computer by delivering newspapers for 2 years.  I learned to program by trial and error.  I introduced my kids to programming but never pushed it.  They have not embraced programming like my wife and I did when we were kids. I would not want programming mandated for my kids, despite my own passion for programming.<p>A comfort using computers to do research, word processing, calculation and create basic posters&#x2F;articles&#x2F;projects&#x2F;videos would be very beneficial and may be better a better mandate than programming.