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My high school required everyone to take a "typing" class and the instructor didn't know the word processor installed could do cut and paste. Those of us that w
by rpiguy 9y ago
My high school required everyone to take a "typing" class and the instructor didn't know the word processor installed could do cut and paste. Those of us that were computer savvy in the early 90s therefore were the fastest typists in the class by a wide margin :-)
- sathackr 9y agoNearly the same thing happened to me. Except the instructor felt the other kids would be dissuaded by my typing and told me I couldn't stay in the class. And, similar to your case, typing was a prerequisite to taking any other computer course. They wouldn't give me credit, but wouldn't let me stay in the class either. I would up taking it in summer school of 9th grade, spent 2 days, the program clocked me at 139wpm and the teacher(a different one) said I couldn't stay there either. She talked to the office and I got to hang out in the school office for the rest of the summer. What fun. All because they didn't want to make the other kids feel bad. At least they gave me credit for the class.
- kej 9y agoI had the same experience, except the teacher asked me, since I knew how to type and use a computer, if I'd like to take a programming class instead.
- probably_wrong 9y agoMy brother had the opposite experience: we didn't know what "copy and paste" was, but one of my brother's classmates did. So they told the typing class professor, and he forbade everyone from bringing printed homework. My parents had to buy a typewriter, despite having a perfectly good printer at home.