Public Education is where you learn stuff like science, math, writing, literature. It is not where you learn how to use the current version of Microsoft office

Public Education is where you learn stuff like science, math, writing, literature. It is not where you learn how to use the current version of Microsoft office that will be obsolete in 5 years. Anyone who is computer literate can likely be trained to use a particular software package by their employer. This is especially true when their particular company is liable to use a fair bit of very specific applications/web applications to manage the company's particular business. It is impossible and pointless to worry about whether high school graduates know particular software packages when there are many and varied different choices for any industry and so many industries to pick from. Higher ed should still be about the subject matter not once again particular soon to be obsolete versions of whatever software is common in their industry. When you spend 4-10 years learning a topic being 6 hours behind another applicant doesn't seem much like a handicap.