As people who watch ‘education’ in the United States have learned - whoever hands a kid a computer has control over what is in that computer...and that is not a good thing, at least if you’re a parent.
How many of the students are children of jihadi Muslims?
like so much else, it ultimately depends on the user.
I'd like to have one, and between me and the grandkids (and the great grands), I think we could have some fun. But then, we aren't diabolical enemies of Western Civilization, either.
Are these computers going to be like the government supplied computers in Pennsylvania 2 or 3 years back where the schools could turn on the cameras and watch students bedrooms?
That program went so well, didn’t it? /s
Teaching children to write some code no more makes them programmers than teaching them algebra makes them mathematicians. It will take years to see the results but I will wager that the central planners will be clueless as to why their efforts and spending in the end yielded such pitiful results.