My elementary school had several TRS-80s and very little clue what to do with them. The only lesson I can remember involved creating a picture on graph paper an

My elementary school had several TRS-80s and very little clue what to do with them. The only lesson I can remember involved creating a picture on graph paper and then typing PSET over and over again to color each pixel to match your paper. I think the lasting lesson most students took from it is that computers are insanely tedious and boring. Which isn't exactly false, but also not the whole story. I asked the teacher how to make loops and she showed me an example in her book, which was enough for me to figure them out and cut my typing down by about 100x. I guess they assumed it would be too hard to even bother mentioning.