> I just got my junior high school schedule for the impending school year. I was incredibly surprised when I read the list of classes and found that all computer courses except the "here's a mouse, here's a spreadsheet, now go screw around in MS Paint" course.
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> I'll grant that I go to a small, church-supported school, but aren't computer skills one of the things that employers and college recruiters look for on applications, and therefore a subject that should at least have a few classes devoted to it?
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> Mr"Severely Agitated Quadroped"Llama

Except for when you're still in High School, you don't want to work for someone who'll check what you did in Junior High.

And many employers just assume you have computer knowledge, anyway.