Schools won't bother to teach coding until someone puts it on the state assessment test. Until then, coding will be the same independent extracurricular activity it has been since the days of BASIC. Reporting from the real world (Maryland).

Couldn't take off last January, because there was a chunk of rubber missing from one of the plane's tires. Also - no maintenance crew at the airport on Sundays. It would be at least 45 minutes before someone could get there to even look at the plane. By the time they let us off the plane to wait at the terminal, we had already missed our connection at the next airport. We decided to rent a car and drive the 11 hours home. We might do the road trip every time now...