California regulators attack computer programming schools

In Silicon Valley a half a dozen computer programming schools received scary letters from the Staties.  The Bureau for Private Post Secondary Eduation wants the schools to submit each and every curriculum change to the board for approval, and for all teachers to have three years of teaching experience. 
  Wow.  Talk about  killing off the goose that lays the golden eggs.  This is Silicon Valley, which has laid a lot of golden eggs over the years.  Silicon Valley runs on programming.  The schools the staties are harrassing are necessary,  private, costly ($10,000), and successful.  99% of their graduates are offered jobs.   Caltech doesn't do that well.  And yet, the staties cannot resist the urge to meddle. 
   The bit about requiring three years teaching experience is a killer.  The  schools are teaching Windows internals, and Internet programming.  To make anything happen in a Windows computer or over the Internet, the programmer has to call  specialized subroutines furnished by Microsoft or Oracle.  These vital subroutines are poorly documented, or not documented at all.  Only a few experts know what they are, where to find them, and how to use them.  And these guys aren't about to waste three years teaching grade school for $30K.  They can make 5 times that amount programming.  They teach in the programming schools largely as a labor of love.   Programmers love what they do, and want to enable others to get into programming just because they love programming so much.  If the staties really enforce the "three years teaching experience" bit, the schools won't be able to find qualified instructors.  The bit about  submitting curriculum changes  for state approval is less damaging, it only traps the schools in a web of paperwork that saps time and energy away from running the school and wastes it doing mickey mouse. 
   America used to be a free country.  In a free country you can start any business, and run it, without getting approval from the staties.  California is no longer free.  Maybe that's why the state economy is so bad.