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A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding to count toward foreign language credits has hit a snag — but advocates aren't giving up.

Does Coding Count as a Foreign Language? A Florida bill proposes to let credits from computer-coding classes count like those for Spanish or French courses—but many are skeptical.

Computer coding could be the next option for students wanting to take a language class.

The Louisiana Legislature signed off on a bill Monday that would allow students to substitute computer coding for a foreign language when being considered for TOPS eligibility.

Some educators are pushing back, arguing that while computer coding may be useful, it doesn’t use the same brain activity as learning a foreign language.

Florida senators overwhelmingly approved a proposal Wednesday to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two ...

That is particularly so in the case of strategic languages such as Mandarin, Arabic, and Farsi. By allowing high-school students to substitute computer coding, Florida exacerbates the problem.