

Stop forcing kids to Code!!!


Stop forcing kids to Code!!!
The Issue
The recent Education Policy of India NEP 2020 has a provision to make coding compulsory for all kids from the 6th standard. This has already given rise to a dozen of startups claiming to be the best friend for your kids to learn to code! The incessant flow of capital into dozens of online coding apps and portals is both dangerous and inadvertent as it seems the kids 'cycle' is being replaced by parents with these 'code learning apps & portals and programs'
This has to stop and stop now as in the end coding is an art, if we push it down the throats of kids like mathematics we will see less and less kids interesting to code going forward and while the world is moving towards 'less-code' and 'nocode' apps we need to take a call, will the kids need to code when they grow up? if not, then why are we forcing them to learn to code!!!
High time government takes note of this force and takes corrective action in both the National Education Policy as well as the EdtechMafias who are painting the town red with their offers to make your kid a coding genius and a technopreneur!
Trust me here, I have been in this industry from over 2 decades, even people with 2 decades of coding experience can't code nor make a decent working app, what the kids will do it, impossible!!! This is a farce and this has to stop!!!

The Issue
The recent Education Policy of India NEP 2020 has a provision to make coding compulsory for all kids from the 6th standard. This has already given rise to a dozen of startups claiming to be the best friend for your kids to learn to code! The incessant flow of capital into dozens of online coding apps and portals is both dangerous and inadvertent as it seems the kids 'cycle' is being replaced by parents with these 'code learning apps & portals and programs'
This has to stop and stop now as in the end coding is an art, if we push it down the throats of kids like mathematics we will see less and less kids interesting to code going forward and while the world is moving towards 'less-code' and 'nocode' apps we need to take a call, will the kids need to code when they grow up? if not, then why are we forcing them to learn to code!!!
High time government takes note of this force and takes corrective action in both the National Education Policy as well as the EdtechMafias who are painting the town red with their offers to make your kid a coding genius and a technopreneur!
Trust me here, I have been in this industry from over 2 decades, even people with 2 decades of coding experience can't code nor make a decent working app, what the kids will do it, impossible!!! This is a farce and this has to stop!!!

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Petition created on 20 September 2020