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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 10, 2019 12:38:44 GMT
When I was a youngun, the local high school had typing classes.
Did your school?
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Post by Raimo47 on Oct 10, 2019 12:49:30 GMT
Yes.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 10, 2019 12:50:28 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 10, 2019 13:33:19 GMT
Do schools still offer typing? I thought it wasn't as necessary since every computer is a word processor now.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Oct 10, 2019 14:01:04 GMT
Yes. And, it was on actual typewriters.
The next school year, the system was upgraded to computers.
Funny thing about typing.
Back when our family first got a PC, I'm clacking away on the keyboard - typing something.
I can hear my mother from the other room say, "Showoff."
I reply, "Hey....don't think this happened overnight."
Joker's Wilde
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Oct 10, 2019 14:25:32 GMT
Yes. We use Royal typewriters.
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Post by Jayman on Oct 10, 2019 14:27:39 GMT
They did in my high school and I am grateful for that. It also made life so much easier once I started going in chatrooms and forums or just to type stuff out in the computer
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Post by politicidal on Oct 10, 2019 14:27:48 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Zos on Oct 10, 2019 14:32:19 GMT
Not for boys. Mind you it was the early 1970s.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Oct 10, 2019 17:29:03 GMT
Yes.
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Post by msdemos on Oct 10, 2019 18:21:11 GMT
I AM a "boy", and am SO glad I did take it back in Junior High (mid 1970's) because that, along with my driving skills (Driver's Ed, a few years later) are just about the only two things (aside from readin', writin', and 'rithmetic!) from school that I still use to this day (not, of course, that I'm still typing papers, just that I haven't had to sit hunched over my computer keyboard these last three decades or so, "hunting and pecking")....  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by movielover on Oct 10, 2019 18:24:20 GMT
Yep, eighth grade.
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Post by sjg on Oct 10, 2019 18:26:43 GMT
I'm going to say no but that's only because i don't remember there being any
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Post by Jayman on Oct 10, 2019 18:26:53 GMT
I AM a boy and am SO glad I took it back in Junior High, in the mid 1970's, because that, along with my driving skills (Driver's Ed, a few years later) are just about the only two things from school that I still use to this day (not, of course, that I'm still typing papers, just that I haven't had to sit hunched over my computer keyboard these last three decades or so, "hunting and pecking").... SAVE FERRIS The class I took, some people just half assed it and didn't apply themselves so they never learned how to do it. But once you learn it you don't forget how to type. If I did the whole two finger johnny thing, my posts would be very short. And forget about doing pm's 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 18:27:13 GMT
in High school yes BUT the students on the Academic track (and not the Commercial Track) were not allowed to take Typing (or Stenography) even as electives.
I still do a fast hunt and peck with LOTS and LOTS of edits.
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Post by msdemos on Oct 10, 2019 18:34:04 GMT
in High school yes BUT the students on the Academic track (and not the Commercial Track) were not allowed to take Typing (or Stenography) even as electives. Wait......WHAT ?? Hmmm.....seems if some silly school actually tried to pull crap like that today, SOMEBODY would sue the pants off them, claiming they are denying them the right to a chosen education......or something like that.... SAVE FERRIS
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 18:48:00 GMT
msdemosThe school administrator had some weird ideas and was able to push things through that made no sense. The Academic students usually helped teachers in offices etc and got some sort of credit for it BUT the admin said that before getting onto the ARISTA honor society they had to also do "cafeteria duty" which consisted of guarding the doors so that smokers could not escape the building. Parent got into the situation and when asked "WHY ?" he said .. "to teach them humility! " Bizarre !
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 10, 2019 19:01:53 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Oct 10, 2019 20:23:22 GMT
Yeah. We used those electronic typewriters.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 10, 2019 23:20:47 GMT
Yep, & ours was the final year for electronic typewriters before they went computer.
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