And personally, I don't like C++ that much. I prefer C# and Java. I don't feel there are any advantages to teaching C++ over java, other than the fact that it's easier to learn java after learning C++ (as opposed to the other way around).
And this won't do much to hurt the industry. Remind you that 50% of C++ programmers are still just c programmer who barely use C++ to its full potential. By emphasizing java in high school and college, they are going to expand the use of object oriented programming in the industry, and maybe kill off a lot of the c code that is found in the C++ world. And this seems like this is very possible since moving over to C++ from java is easier than c to C++(teaching C++ in schools encourages programmers to use a lot of c in the real world).
