Hell yea (Score 1)

Absolutely... I'd rather see the children learning FORTRAN than something awful like .NET or to a lesser degree Java -- I'd actually like to see the whole .NET thing go away permanently... but in all reality I think c/c++ is the best language to start in because it is in at least some ways syntactically similar to many languages, and is a good introduction to object oriented design. ...or as of late I've been finding objective c to be a worthwhile endeavor.