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Even if they would teach it, people are forgetting so much of what they learned at school.
One of my friends from High School posted that meme about how school didn't prepare him properly for life, because he doesn't know how to do taxes, but at least he knows that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
I had to comment: "I sat next to you in civics class, where we literally filled out fake tax forms to prepare us for doing taxes.".
It's ridiculous.
I can't forget it. The evil teacher put a box over our hands and keyboard so we couldn't see our fingers. The typing software made a beep every time we made a mistake and summoned the teacher. The exams where timed and every mistake you made in the final copy (you basically had to copy a paper document) cost you a grade.
I still fuck up sometimes today due to sometimes using keyboards with US, DE or Apple layouts but in general I'm quite fast and never need to look at my hands.
I hated software like this. It caused me to make two errors immediately: knowing I missed the correct key and then immediately back spacing, causing the second error.
I hated that box. It was red and we'd just slump down in our chairs to look under it.
The thing that really helped my touch typing was playing MUDS: nothing like a textual goblin attacking you to encourage you to quickly type "kill goblin".
I remember we did it. Though not that strictly. Just some program and eventually got a grade for it based on usually grading system. I would have never passed so strict requirements, well i never have passed so strict requirements anyway.
Our native language teacher had similar strict requirements. I didn't pass a single exam that year, regardless of how many times i tried or for how long i studied.
So I'm completely with you, screw that type of teachers. Making mistakes is human.
I took typing in high school decades ago and it was probably the most useful thing I ever learned there