My public high school in Ontario was supposed to be a "magnet school for the gifted" and instead turned out to be a scam.
The computer class teacher was absent for a year, and the substitute teacher insisted that the keyboard and mouse cords should be neatly arranged at the end of each class as if it was a knitting class. The "coursework" consisted of learning how to type out "business memos" using a word processor.
The school believed that this was an important skill and imagined that we would be writing "memos" on computers and printing them out in the "business world."
I skipped every class I could to hang out with my girlfriend and got out with a 2.0 GPA.
The school in question has since been demolished. The whole scam was to try to prevent the school from being demolished due to low performance, so they pretended to be a "magnet school for the gifted."
My public high school in Ontario was supposed to be a "magnet school for the gifted" and instead turned out to be a scam.
The computer class teacher was absent for a year, and the substitute teacher insisted that the keyboard and mouse cords should be neatly arranged at the end of each class as if it was a knitting class. The "coursework" consisted of learning how to type out "business memos" using a word processor.
The school believed that this was an important skill and imagined that we would be writing "memos" on computers and printing them out in the "business world."
I skipped every class I could to hang out with my girlfriend and got out with a 2.0 GPA.
The school in question has since been demolished. The whole scam was to try to prevent the school from being demolished due to low performance, so they pretended to be a "magnet school for the gifted."