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I learned touch typing from out head football coach/athletic director (my school required you taught one class as a fte). Giant man. Basically said "don't be li
by grogenaut 6y ago
I learned touch typing from out head football coach/athletic director (my school required you taught one class as a fte). Giant man. Basically said "don't be like me kids" and comically fumbled through 20wpm. For some bro kids back in the 90s having someone like that mock your typing was very effective. (He was nice to non jocks).
College football coach cemented it a bit more saying he had to pay someone to type his master's project in for him. By that time I had started coding classes and that's what really upped my wpm.
I think not being able to type is one of the more ironic reverse sexisms currently. Many schools didn't allow boys to take typing or home ec, nor girls to take shop. Now you see granddad's struggle to communicate (my uncle doesn't even have a phone my aunt does), and the grandmother's being quite fluent.
- throwaway201103 6y ago> Many schools didn't allow boys to take typing or home ec, nor girls to take shop. When/where was this? There were most definitely boys in home ec and girls in shop when I was in middle school (late 1970s). And many boys took typing in high school. This was in a conservative midwestern state.
- SyzygistSix 6y agoSame for me in the early 80s. All boys and girls took shop, home ec, and typing. And Hunter Safety, as part of phys-ed.
- grogenaut 6y agoI'm referring to 50s and 60s when my parents / uncle were in school