We don't teach kids how to use an abacus or a slide rule. But we teach positional representations and logarithms.

The goal is theoretical concepts so you can learn the required skills if necessary. The same will occur with code.

You don't need to memorize the syntax to write a for loop or for each loop, but you should understand when you might use either and be able to look up how to write one in a given language.

There are a growing set of problems which feel like using a calculator for basic math to me.

But also school is a whole other thing which I'm much more worried about with LLMs. Because there's no doubt in my mind I would have abused AI every chance I got if it were around when I was a kid, and I wouldn't have learned a damn thing.

This is, in fact, why we teach kids math that calculators could handle!