Why, LOGO was all the rage back in elementary school way back when. Some of the upper year students were doing some pretty impressive-looking things in it, but I never got that far, alas. Actually, before we moved on to Appleworks, we used it as a primitive word processor, possibly because of its large font size.
Still, I think I was using BASIC before then.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." --Edsger W. Dijkstra, quoted in
The Jargon File.