{"id":34466,"date":"2009-10-28T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091026\/0202156667.shtml"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T21:22:00","slug":"are-kids-not-going-into-computer-science-because-their-parents-want-them-to-be-sports-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34466","title":{"rendered":"Are Kids Not Going Into Computer Science Because Their Parents Want Them To Be Sports Stars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some talk lately about how come not as many students are taking computer science in school, and someone over at Information Management online is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.information-management.com\/news\/computer_science_education_week_house_resolution-10016354-1.html\" >it&#8217;s all your parents fault<\/a> for encouraging you to be a baseball star or a CEO or the next American Idol.  This seems to be based on nothing more than a hunch, and the whole thing makes no sense to me.  My guess is that most people who don&#8217;t go into computer science don&#8217;t do it because <i>they&#8217;re not interested in it<\/i>.  I don&#8217;t think the answer is to tell your little slugger to put down the baseball bat and spend more time learning BASIC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091026\/0202156667.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091026\/0202156667.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091026\/0202156667&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=83dd237560329801bc4974a9ef5adcec&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=83dd237560329801bc4974a9ef5adcec&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=JY5LBbe-rHo:D2e-nw2t33c:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=JY5LBbe-rHo:D2e-nw2t33c:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=JY5LBbe-rHo:D2e-nw2t33c:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/JY5LBbe-rHo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some talk lately about how come not as many students are taking computer science in school, and someone over at Information Management online is suggesting that it&#8217;s all your parents fault for encouraging you to be a baseball star or a CEO or the next American Idol. This seems to be based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}