[esperluette]

Wow. Feeling pretty good about my HS Pascal class (yeah, I'm old, so what) now. I was only ignored and dismissed, not harassed and told to make sandwiches (!).

The OP's daughter sounds awesome. The OP's daughter's teacher sounds like a real idiot.

[anaphor]

Nothing wrong with Pascal though, it's probably much better to learn with than say C++ or Java.