The high school I went to frosh/soph years had a typing requirement. You could either take the basic year-long Typing I class (available to all students), or the semester-long Personal Typing (available to upperclassmen only). My mother insisted I take Typing I in my freshman year, despite my pleas to use that time for another elective (ANY other elective).

Had I but known that Usenet and the Web were in my future, I never would have complained….