In recent years, many researchers, study groups and associations (Diethelm et al. 2013; Baudé 2013; Furber 2012; Seehorn et al. 2011) launched alerting calls to make the teaching of informatics as a subject and make it mandatory at all educational levels. The current mainstream is to start teaching computational thinking and problem solving as early as the primary school. In fact, informatics is increasingly seen as an academic discipline similar to other subjects like mathematics, earth and life sciences, chemistry, and physics. This article underlines the importance of computer science as an essential component of civic education. We then make a critical overview about the state of informatics education in Morocco. At the end we present a number of suggestions for any eventual reforms related to the subject in light of what’s been adopted in few countries like England, the United States, France, Japan, Poland and Tunisia.