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A comment on Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?.

Re:Ask HN: What should be taught in high school? by imdsm on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:11AM (#21663413)
Not entirely ICT but I wish my school taught me:

- Engineering

- Flight dynamics

- Systems theory

- Useful mathematics

- How to lift heavy items properly

- How to make a cup of tea properly

- Sword fighting

But to be more on topic, I think ICT was completely off the mark in high school 01-06 in the UK, it focused on Microsoft Office suite and, well, that was about it.

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Re:Ask HN: What should be taught in high school? by arethuza on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:21AM (#21663911)
I don't know about the rest of the UK but Scotland (which has its own separate education system) has had Computer Science courses in schools for a while now:

https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/48486.html

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Re:Ask HN: What should be taught in high school? by andydavieswork on Friday November 29, 2019 @06:15AM (#21663658)
We used to spend an hour drawing pictures in Microsoft Paint
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