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Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS
An anonymous reader writes "A Google engineer visiting Vietnam discovered a large portion of Vietnamese high school students might be able to pass a Google interview. According to TFA (and his blog), students start learning computing as early as grade 2. According to the blogger and another senior engineer, about half of the students in an 11th grade class he visited would be able to make through their interview process. The blogger also mentioned U.S. school boards blocking computer science education. The link he posted backing up his claim goes to a Maryland Public Schools website describing No Child Left Behind technicalities. According to the link, computer science is not considered a core subject. While the blogger provided no substantial evidence of U.S. school boards blocking computer science education, he claimed that students at Galileo Academy had difficulty with the HTML image tag. According to the school's Wikipedia page, by California standards, Galileo seems to be one of the state's better secondary schools."
Look, coding is an intellectual pursuit. You need to be above average IQ to do it well. Of course, that means that MOST people cannot code. If you think that most jobs are going to require programming, then you're saying that most people are going to be unemployable.
Sounds like this job framework needs a re-think. We can't have a society where most people are unemployable. We need to bring back good-paying jobs in factories that build the world's products. The only reason we're not doing it now is the income taxes. No, the income taxes take more $$$ out of businesses than the supposed "high wage American worker" does. Get rid of the income taxes, and this country would be #1 in manufacturing, and people who cannot code, but can wire up / plumb up a factory before you can blink twice will be well-paid and society, overall, will be prosperous.
Look at the Fair Tax. It replaces the income taxes with a consumption tax on new retail items for sale. This would make the US a prosperous nation again.