I was reading a perspective that views the effort to teach kids coding as a "fetishization" of the subject. Naturally, I disagree. Coding is a fundamental skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic. The person who knows how to code understands how computers and systems work at a level that the person on the sidelines can only dream of. The article views it is like learning the parts of a car without learning to drive. I say that most everyone learns to drive but only