At the Park School just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, 8th grader Chance Williams was having a lot of trouble in Spanish. At one point, Chance’s father, Jeff, found himself sitting in the principal’s office with the Spanish teacher when a wild idea struck him. “I thought, he loves computers, why not let him pursue that instead? Why not let him take Java as a foreign language.
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