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alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/>My pal <a href=\"http:\/\/willrichardson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Richardson<\/a> asked me to respond to news that the Florida legislature (ground zero for destructive education policies) has passed a bill allowing high school students to substitute\u00a0&#8220;coding&#8221; courses for foreign language requirements. (<em>see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/florida-senate-approves-making-coding-foreign-language\/81150796\/?utm_content=buffer3fa9f&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Senate approves making coding a foreign language<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>If you are a toddler learning English as a second language between binge watching\u00a0seasons of <em>Glitter Force<\/em>, it&#8217;s easy to see how &#8220;coding&#8221; in a programming <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">language<\/span> and literacy in a foreign <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">language<\/span> are equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>For adult legislators entrusted with governance, this policy means two\u00a0things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>They\u00a0have no idea what computer coding is.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>When policy makers say that students should &#8220;understand&#8221; technology or refer to technology as a &#8220;basic skill,&#8221; they reveal a profound ignorance of computer science and have reduced a powerful intellectual pursuit to the level of a bicycle safety assembly or &#8220;don&#8217;t copy that floppy&#8221; poster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>They\u00a0are finally willing to admit\u00a0that they\u00a0don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about teaching foreign language.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This may also be a tacit recognition that high school foreign language instruction is mostly torturous and unsuccessful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When Will tweeted me about the news, a fellow twitterit asked, &#8220;Why music can&#8217;t satisfy foreign language requirements?&#8221; While, there is no greater advocate for music education than myself, this\u00a0newfound willingness to substitute one discipline for a completely unrelated required course is an admission that all course requirements should be abolished. There is so little consensus on what matters. And that may be a very good thing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=3596\">President Obama Discovers Coding \u2013 Yippee!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=3653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Code.org &#8211; Oy Veh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=3368\">Education\u2019s Most Dangerous Idea: Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=3570\">Yuck!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=3492\">The Secret Key to Girls and Computer Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Will Richardson asked me to respond to news that the Florida legislature (ground zero for destructive education policies) has passed a bill allowing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,435,526,436,438],"tags":[1407,1276,803,1389,1404,1406,1403,1405,770],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-featured","category-leadership","category-news","category-technology","tag-willrich45","tag-coding","tag-computer-science","tag-education-policy","tag-florida","tag-foreign-language","tag-high-school-requirements","tag-law","tag-will-richardson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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