Computer science unpopular in secondary school
Only 1 in 20 Dutch secondary school students choose to take a computer science course, Webwereld reports.
On average Dutch high schools have one computer science teacher who received their last training ten years ago.
I remember when computer science was introduced at my grammar school in the mid-1980s, the instructors were our regular maths teachers who often did not know what they were doing. The booklet that came with the course was flimsy—I had finished reading it before the semester started and spent the rest of my time programming games. What was worse was that the course was aimed at the few who were interested in programming, even though learning how to use a word processor and a spreadsheet would have been more useful to the majority of the pupils.
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