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The biggest crime is in my opinion that Android as an OS was made without allowing the user root access unless they jump through a bunch of hoops. Even if it comes at the cost of a bricked phone, kids should be allowed to experiment with their devices.
Also, from my experience basic graphic design is the newest version of this. The amount of praise I get for understanding basic color theory, as well as not to use JPGs, or Comic Sans for everything is wild.
To be fair to the basic graphic design point: When I was in high school they were busy killing art programs, and that was in the 90's. It's kind of hard to know that kind of stuff when it straight isn't being taught. Honestly, very similar to the computer stuff, so much of it just isn't taught anymore, and it's leaving a lot of kids with degraded knowledge of the subjects they're pursuing.
Man, I searched desperately for formal art training in school. The best they had was some "how to draw" book that at least kept me on track practicing every day. The colleges accessible to me have had "art" programs that are more the stuffy turtleneck gallery sort of stuff, and not anything practical, so I'm sad higher-ed didn't work out either.
I'm proud none of this stopped me so far, but dang I wonder if those kids who got to take art classes and have mentoring art teachers around art peers know just how dang lucky they've had it...
Dang now I wanna watch "Blue Period" again...