I have a 9 year old home schooled daughter. She is plowing through her normal elementary lessons about 1 grade per 3-4 months. She hungers for and we are feeding her computer science, programming, etc and she loves it. At a young age it becomes a natural abundant assimilated language and will drive future innovation.
Thomas Prendergast
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Markethive
"In the works for 18 months, the survey, called "Searching for Computer Science: Access and Barriers in U.S. K-12 Education," polled 15,000 people ranging from students to superintendents.
Among key and contrasting findings: while 90% of parents see computer science, or CS, as "a good use of school resources" (and 67% say CS should be required learning alongside other core classes), fewer than 8% of administrators believe parent demand is high. They also cite a lack of trained teachers as a top barrier to offering CS courses. Three quarters of principals report no CS programs in their school."
What is bizarre is that according to USA Today, "By 2020, roughly 1 million coding jobs will go unfilled, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
So why with the current economy and the way the computers have made it into a major portion of life are they resisting?
Another aspect of this is the fact that the tech companies recently have been changing how they interview and creating ways so that women and minorities make the tech industry a career? Can this happen if schools downplay it?
"The new Gallup study confirms that minority groups are "less likely to have opportunities to learn CS in school," with fewer students reporting that they have access to computers in classrooms. It also indicates that some groups are particularly unlikely to access myriad online tutorials to teach themselves coding at home: 75% of Hispanic students have a computer with Internet access at home, compared to 98% of white students and 85% of African-American students.
"And on top of all that, girls overall are less likely than boys to have had access to learning CS," says Hong, with 57% of boys versus 49% of girls reporting past exposure to computer science.
The biggest gap unearthed by the study would seem to be between the lack of CS education in classrooms and most students' conviction (80%) that, somehow, they will learn computer science in the future.
"Half the battle is simply having the premise wrong, with (school) leaders thinking interest in CS is not high. Hopefully this study will help eliminate that misconception," Busteed says."
All quotes above came from:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/08/20/google-gallup-poll-finds-parents-want-computer-science-education-but-administrators-arent-sure/31991889/ 
