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Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Re: Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Post by scarecrowbob »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #91
scarecrowbob wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" It is impossible for 80% of Americans to receive something from their employer if 80% of Americans didn't even have an employer." Data aside, that is not a logically true claim: in 1980, I had health insurance... through my mother's employer.

Nhashem didn't say "through someone else's employer".

If you want to be pedantic about it, understand me as just evaluating your proposition.

But yes, I suppose that on some level you're right: 80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed.

Re: Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

scarecrowbob wrote: post #101
yummyfajitas wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nhashem didn't say "through someone else's employer".

If you want to be pedantic about it, understand me as just evaluating your proposition. But yes, I suppose that on some level you're right: 80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed.

>80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed.

Nor will that ever be the case.

Re: Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Post by protomyth »

saraid216 wrote: post #92
protomyth wrote: post #23

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If it isn't introduced in legislation, then a politician doesn't actually care. This is a basic truth in politics. I wouldn't expect this to happen given the general trend away from anything resembling vocational training and the lack of skills to teach the class.

Because the executive branch is totally responsible for introducing things into legislation. Basic truth. Yes. Right.

Yes, the executive branch does submit legislation to the Congress. In fact, the current administration missed a required submission deadline for the budget which is just a big bundle of legislation.

Please learn how the US government works before the next election.

Re: Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Post by saraid216 »

protomyth wrote: post #103
saraid216 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the executive branch is totally responsible for introducing things into legislation. Basic truth. Yes. Right.

Yes, the executive branch does submit legislation to the Congress. In fact, the current administration missed a required submission deadline for the budget which is just a big bundle of legislation. Please learn how the US government works before the next election.

Are you seriously proposing that Obama submits a budget with a line item, "Add programming classes to every high school"?

Re: Obama endorses required high school coding classes

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Post by protomyth »

saraid216 wrote: post #104
protomyth wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the executive branch does submit legislation to the Congress. In fact, the current administration missed a required submission deadline for the budget which is just a big bundle of legislation. Please learn how the US government works before the next election.

Are you seriously proposing that Obama submits a budget with a line item, "Add programming classes to every high school"?

Yep, that is how many programs get funded. It is a line item in the budget. If it is not a line item, then it doesn't get funded. Programs are funded in the budget, then an RFP goes out, then final regulations, then implementation. So yes, without the line item, no program.
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