India, March 13 -- A social media post questioning whether students in middle school should be learning programming and artificial intelligence has triggered a debate online. The discussion began after a woman shared that her younger sister, who studies in Class 7, is already being taught Python and AI in school.

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Taking to X, a woman named Nishtha Singh shared a post writing, "My sister is in 7th class and the students are being taught Python and AI. Isn't it too early?"

Alongside the post, Singh shared an image of a question paper that appeared to be part of a school assignment. The sheet showed a set of questions a...