Sadly, the next step appears to be:

-> using Turbo-C++ for DOS (to learn pre-1998 C++) at university

They still have it installed on some of the PCs at my school, but it's never used. But yeah, they way they deal with whatever they do teach is pitiful. No generics, exception handling, threading etc with Java. :-/ (worst part: kids are taught to tack on "throws IOException" at the end of the signature every method "where they want to use I/O" without any explanation of why that is the case.) They still use an ancient (and bugged) version of JDK and insist upon using deprecated classes.

The main problem here is that the teachers themselves aren't up to date and don't really know what they're teaching that well.