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A contrarian view: Quantum Computing would not be near the top of my list of things to teach in high schools. The students would be better off learning about scientific ideas that have a proven track record, and enable or explain functioning technology that benefits the greater society. There would be hundreds of topics to choose from.

Foot note: I acknowledge Quantum Computing is just a subfield of QIS, but the abstract only talks about IBM Q and quantum algorithms.

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I don't think you view is contrarian. At least I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I spent 7+ years doing work in QIS (five years ago). Obviously if quantum computers start to do something useful within our lifetime it will be an interesting development, but that's a big if right now and also not clear if the new interesting stuff that comes out of QC will actually be useful for something.

Also, I don't this think we're alone thinking QC is overhyped, this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961967 links to a report by NAS that is rather lukewarm if not cold on the prospects.