[TOS] CS certification for K12 - what is out there?

[Don Davis]

so I might suggest that reaching out to parents is a better way to bring
computing into the schools.

This is a very good point - I was actually going over this in my head
before you posted it. ~5 years of me in a position of some (read more
than a classroom teacher but less than an AP = very little)
influence/authority in a school could not get anyone to budge on almost
any tech matter.

However, when students with the "right" parents passed around a petition
to get a CS course - *BAM* -the school had a CS program the next year.


Sure, I can see it as analogous to dual language programs - when the
"right" parents want something - it gets done and there's a waiting
list. When not, then not...