Banning Coding Books Will Only Make Parents Fight Harder for Them I’ve visited a lot of schools as the founder of Girls Who Code. When we launched our afterschool clubs program in 2015, I went on tour, visiting our programs from the wealthiest zip codes in the country to the poorest pockets of America. Many of the students I met — a disproportionate number of them Black and brown — hailed from economically disadvantaged backgrounds; they had tattered textbooks, spotty wifi and — critically for a coding club — sparse, ancient computers. It was my fear that these students would...