If you think about it the sad part is not really there.
I do not believe that teaching etoy, logo, botsinc really help kids  
learning maths as with a teacher: They have fun, they are emerged  
into maths, they are not afraid which is already a lot.  Instead of  
investing in language people should invest
in contents: the right exercise to teach the right concepts.
Right now what you see (even if etoy) is that they are really few  
good material. I translated the book of Kim and some french teachers  
were happy and then asked the killing question: the start was fun so  
what where is the contents?
Besides driving a car....(i pointed them to the graph basket ball  
thingies but this is not enough).
So if Ubuntu people think that they can substitute the writing and  
development of a math curriculum, with
a "come with me play stuff" developed in any language, this means  
that this is a view of programmer (bold of course and full of
enthousiasm) and I wish them success, because I think that the  
contents in any format is more important.

May living and being surrounded by teachers biaised my view of the  
world...