"a candidate would be marketable to a broader range of shops if the program gave them a basic grounding in #{LANGUAGE} and #{DB}"

Seems like people fail to realize that the language is the medium through which they teach concepts (algorithms, data structures, etc).

I'm an HR06 grad; we focused on fullstack Javascript, but that hasn't stopped me from working in Ruby/Rails, or more recently, Go.

Beyond that, we did actually have lectures/sprints on MySql, Postgresql and Mongodb. Not sure if that's changed at all.