Java vs Python

I'm a noobish programmer who has been simultaneously learning Python and Java. As a beginner, I must say I FUCKING HATE JAVA and Python is nice. I came upon this article just now http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/category/java-and-python/
and it eloquently points out java's lameness and pythons awesomeness.
In light of this, why are they teaching Java at my school and not python? Like srsly?

There is a fate worse than programming in Java while knowing there's so many better languages out there, and that is programming in Java and believing out of ignorance that this is as good as it gets.