Best education idea I’ve seen floated and it has to come from a disgusting RAT.
My dad was a teacher and principal in the Chicago public schools for some odd 40 years. The way you get these kids out of the ghetto, by proven experience, has nothing whatever to do with focusing on a particular skill set fad. It has to do with giving them the opportunity to succeed or fail on their own effort, in whatever they do. Too many of these kids are so dysfunctional they are just pushed through the system like so much cattle, dropped off at the end, and relegated to continuing the dysfunction into the next generation. The teachers are in fear of their lives, so they don’t rock the boat. My dad rocked the boat. He was helping them escape poverty by putting them up to a stiff challenge and helping those who showed they had the drive turn that drive into success.
And coding shmoding. I’m a coder. There are niches where a person can avoid the problem of competition from cheap imported labor. But they are far and few between. Emmanuel’s plan seems better calculated to make programming even more of a generic commodity than it already is. The problem is, the dime-a-dozen programmers are a known quantity, and when you need the hard stuff done right, you still have to go back to the rock stars. You know who you are. That hasn’t changed too much since the invention of Eniac. It is what it is. Modern coding tools have helped migrate some superior practices into the lower tiers, but the good coders are ten times better than the average coder, and they’re the ones who make that world turn, and have the corresponding earnings, mostly. Always gonna be some outliers.
Peace,
SR