Back in my teen years, the Alabama public schools mandated "Computer Applications" as a high-school graduation requirement. This was a whole semester of Microsoft Works. Most of the term was learning how to use a word processor; later, we graduated to (dun dun DUN) spreadsheets.

There was a test you could take to try to exempt out of it, but they said it was "very hard -- no one has ever passed". To this day, I'm still convinced that they rig the grading, because -- let's be honest here -- there is no way that I could have fucked up a ten-line spreadsheet. I'd been *programming computers* for over four years by that point. When I cared, I got things *right*.

I *was* able to convince them that I could touch-type, so I didn't have to take "Keyboarding".

@bstacey I got out of it too, but I didn't actually "pass" the test because I apparently used the wrong fingers to touch-type. He let me out with a low pass so I could take choir instead. Keyboarding class was the most boring two weeks of my life.