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Originally Posted by Patricia
I'm afraid that I still need to think about it. Typing does not come naturally because I'm self-taught.
In my school, only the middle and lower streamed girls were allowed to learn typing. We of the upper forms were expected to do better for ourselves. Boys weren't supposed to type at all. Girls were forbidden to learn woodwork. And, if you were slow but dogged, there was a class for would-be punch-card operatives.
I left school in the mid-1970s. Things have changed for the better, thankfully.
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We never did woodwork, but we did do a bit of metal work. And anyone who wasn't in the lowest stream was expected to have a burning desire to go into engineering of some kind (this was an all girls school in the 80s). There was no option at school to learn typing - it was something I did in college alongside doing A levels, and I have to say I have found it very useful (it's meant in the past I've been able to win speed-coding competions against male colleagues and so on
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