Dear well-meaning CS faculty who tell us that "new languages aren& #39;t the answer" or "high school kids only want to learn what everybody else is using,"

Please stop.

You may very well be right! But you& #39;re contributing to a belief that we shouldn& #39;t be even *trying* new languages.

I can tell you that several of us who are trying to build and test new programming languages for integrating CS into K-12 are struggling to get funding because, on every panel, there is someone saying, "But everyone knows that new languages won& #39;t work. Kids want authenticity."

You may be right! But let us do the experiments to test the hypothesis! By repeating (WITHOUT EVIDENCE) that this won& #39;t work, you& #39;re contributing to the belief that it& #39;s not worth trying, it& #39;s not worth testing. If you have evidence, please do share it. If you don& #39;t, please stop