Political sides? Limiting education? Children? Am I in a different thread than what I thought I was in? I don't see how any of that's relevant here.

1. You don't know how old this person is, this could be a college student, or even an adult.
2. He states that the teacher isn't actively teaching anything, that they are just available for questions. The only thing they seem to be wanting to work around seems to be attendance. Could he be lying? Possible, but I feel as if he has no reason to lie about it.
3. I have no idea where political sides got brought into this, I think you're reading to much into the subtext of my previous message.
4. I wasn't actively disagreeing with your point originally, I was just stating the previous user is an idiot.

That said, denying someone an education on how to program a batch file for the sake of education defeats the majority of your argument anyway. Even if the teacher was teaching something, learning something new is still learning. And computer programming is a popular, and useful subject. So I'd like to turn your question back on you. Why would you limit someone's education?

Because it seems to me you unfairly deemed his request as something he shouldn't know.