Good points albeight a bit out of topic, question was pascal in schools.

IMHO pascal will not return into the mainsteam but it may survive with a smaller userbase if FPC and most importantly Lazarus teams can get it right. (the former is basicly "there" the latter has a lot to do IMHO).

Altho putting pascal into schools again might help it, it might also hurt it as it already did once. Most people don't remember the old school pascal days in a good way. Almost everyone switched to C or somesuch after school or at home because what's from school is not good.