Re:CS (Score 4, Insightful)

I'm an educator. I teach Physics, CS, and Engineering. My advice is maybe. If your goal is to get your child to become a computer scientist, then no. If your goal is to expose your student to different ways of thinking, then absolutely. It's high school! No one should be making career choices at that age. High school, and parts of college, are all about developing agile minds that can incorporate many different ways of approaching tasks and problems. Most of my students are not going to be astrophysicists. However, all of them leave my class understanding how to use the scientific method in their lives. That's more important, imo.