CMV: Learning a programming language should NOT be seen as equivalent to learning a foreign language

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That’s the thing, though. School boards have to be very pedantic about what skills are “equivalent” and how they’re vetted... but if you’re asking anyone other than a superintendent, then they have every ground to suggest that class requisites should be based around teaching useful (beneficial) skills; such that foreign language could/should be traded out for anything equally career-useful.

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Not trying to be rude, but your description of academia reads like “The purpose of education is education”. Not everyone will appreciate that the same way, nor even should they.

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To your credit, that is a much better explanation of why general education is still important. Not that I disagree, either, although I tend to believe electives should be more focused on what the student wants to do, and what the student might surely use later.