With COBOL being a "business" language, you'd think they'd make the connection. They eventually did, a couple of years after I graduated. I look back and think that was probably too late by then.
In my last year of high school (1997-1998), I heard my school was teaching programming, and I wanted to start learning, so I took the class. I hoped they would be teaching programming with C or C++, but they were teaching BASIC..