Last spring, when my son was denied admittance to the computer lab during high stakes testing time (we had opted him out), I raised a stink, writing an editorial in our local paper protesting not only that he was denied a resource he needed to complete a report he was writing, but also the way he was denied: a curriculum specialist told his teacher that “he can’t be in here.” Not only does standardized testing limit accessibility to school computers (which is even more unfair to students who don’t have computers/internet at home), but as this Huff Post video explores, it prevents students, especially girls and children of color, from learning an essential 21st century skill: how to code.