re: #157 HappyWarrior

For your kids generation and also that of my youngest brother who funnily enough was born when I was in 8th grade keyboarding, typing is so much more important. Keyboarding wasn’t the most exciting elective that I ever took but it by far was the most important. I’m glad to see that it’s required now the way shop used to be. Shop was fun but not really practical as keyboarding turned out to be.

I wish I had taken shop in high school. My dad insisted that I take typing, however, way back in 1982-1983 and I ended up learning how, in my second year of it, doing word processing on an Apple IIe computer. That has been incredibly helpful in my current occupation as a medical transcriptionist.