Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:28PM from the seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees dept.

New submitter Gob Gob writes: The Prime Minister of Australia has come out and ridiculed an opposition policy aimed at teaching kids to code. In response to the leader of the Labor Party's question about whether he would commit to supporting Labor's push to have coding taught in every primary school in Australia, the Prime Minister said: "He said that he wants primary school kids to be taught coding so they can get the jobs of the future. Does he want to send them all out to work at the age of 11? Is that what he wants to do? Seriously?"

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It gets better. . . by jblues · 2015-05-28 21:56 · Score: 4, Informative

It turns out under his own government's policy kids are already being taught to code, and he wasn't aware of this, so naturally went o the attack. Which seems to be the main talent of this guy.

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