... whether the skill of "coding" should count as a foreign language requirement.
Here in Florida, there's a controversy brewing over whether graduation requirements can be modified so that students, who already have to take a foreign language, can substitute computer coding instead of the more traditional foreign languages.
It's been quite some time since I was being formally educated ... where I did have four years of German in high school and also managed to learn Pascal as well (which, back in 1989, was the advanced version of computer programming, just a step or two beyond Basic [both the name of the starter language and the characterization of it]). Of course, nowadays, I don't even recognize the names of what the kids are programming (R, Matlab, Scala and others from the link below/to follow) ... and I tend to think even the foreign language options have changed from French, Latin, German and Spanish (the old big four) to now include Arabic and Chinese options.
Time will tell where the state ends up (my sense of the Florida legislature is that things move very very very slowly ...), but my initial thought is why can't it be an "and" solution instead of an "or"? After all, it's an increasingly global economy (despite some isolationist chatter tied to campaigning) which has depended on computer skills already for decades ... so why create a scenario where the future folks have to choose?
HOT OFF THE PRESSES:
https://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/17/florida-coding-foreign-language
FOREIGN LANGUAGES ARE ALREADY UNDER ATTACK:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/filling-americas-language-education-potholes/392876/
THE FUTURE LANGUAGES KIDS WILL "SPEAK":
http://techbeacon.com/13-programming-languages-defining-future-coding
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