Report: High Schools Fail To Meet Needs Of Tech-Driven World

Roughly a quarter of U.S. high schools require students to take computer science courses, due in part to a misperceive that computers are for video games and surfing the Internet, says a new report.

A sad statistic to see, and I've already been aware of this, from both my AP Computer Science A teacher, and from average scores here in the US on the exam. I'm personally grateful that the high school I go to has a computer Science program beyond that of other schools, though its still locked into the AP guidelines in a sense, but not completely. Sadly what we need is to shake up this issue, if we can get some good programmers to come out of United States, to get rid of this stereotype once and for all. I'm hoping to become one those, with my obsession of programming, as well as my other talents, not to brag or anything. This will take more than one good programmer to bring it up, and if this issue isn't brought up, its going to be like the Cold War all over again, just instead of the Russians, other countries have more talented programmers, as well as better mathematics and other fields we are lacking in. If we do not wake up to this, the US will not be the technical country it once was. That era brought us Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvald, and other great people, that could be attributed to the past of us trying to out educate children better than the Soviets. Unfortunately we've been lazy and have not kept up to those high standards, though that isn't always true. The high school that I go to has strong math programs, as well as a strong CS program, though the math and the CS could be stronger. Unfortunately if the teachers and administers of high schools do not wake up and understand that if people aren't trained, even decently to use computers, and get people who are interested in them, involved with programming, we won't continue to be a tech hub, Japan, for example, will. This issue isn't something to shove back, nor should it be ignored, we need to bring this into the open and solve this quickly, so we don't loose our lead in the Technology Industry.

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