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Re: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?

Subject: Re: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: France Baril <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:35:44 -0400

Interesting. The dinky little poverty-stricken upstate New York rural school district where my kids went to school (950 kids total K-12), instituted a local graduation requirement that every student take a one-semester keyboarding class. I think they probably did this in the 80s, but I could be mistaken on that count. In any case, it is still in effect, even though most of the students have computers at home and can type fast enough before they even take the course.

France Baril wrote:

I think it was available in the early 80's in my region too. I remember seeing typewriters when I went to visit the high school as a kid. However, they disapeared before I got there, 85 to 90. They were replaced with computers, we learned to program in BASIC and to use Word Perfect 5.0, but not to type.

I guess my region is too far up north... although I did not live that far from Montreal. Well, I might have to take back my comment about age discrimination and just call back my old teachers to ask them what happened in my high schools, cause neither one of them had offered these classes.





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