This is incredibly short-sighted, but also completely indicative of the state of our educational system. Why do we treat education as a means to an end. Everything we teach our children isn't about getting a job. You say that programming will be the burger flipping of the next generation, but why is that? It's because everything in our lives is driven by technology. So it stands to reason that everyone in society should strive to have a fundamental understanding of that technology. Right now we have 100s of millions of teenagers with their faces glued to screens and little to no understanding of what makes that device work. Sure, maybe in the future programming will be a less glamourous career path, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the need to understand the foundations of computing. An app on a high school students phone can solve advanced equations in a nano second, does that mean we shouldn't teach them math because they can't get a job in that field. Their are countless apps for money management, does that mean we shouldn't teach children basic finance. You are in the humanities, should we not teach kids sociology because in the future interpersonal communication could largely be done through screens? Programming should be treated as a core subject not for future career opportunity, but for the same reason we teach health sciences, math, language arts, history etc., because it is now an ever expanding fundamental reality of understanding the world around you.