what fucking middle school did you go to chief?
one in a town of not even 20k people and more woods and state owned forest/wetlands than houses or actual resident owned properties or land plots.
I literally grew up on a farm my entire pre-adult life.
unless it was a piss poor inner city school that had upwards of several thousand students on a budget for not even 1k students, that was pretty much a common part of the curriculum of basic computer skills which generally consisted of making a document, how to print said document, how to type, how to send an email, how to open web pages, how to search on the internet, how to save, find and open files, how to save to external devices (like the old zip drives, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks, cd-roms), how to play a video, etc.
on that note though, even the closest inner city "academy" to the area, which even today is held a pretty shitty not give a fuck school system, was at least attempting to "teach" computer skills as early as 2005.
that's largely been the case since the late 1990s forward to varying degrees across the united states, it started with things like the old alphasmart word processor keyboards and progressed from there pretty steadily; there were certainly particularly shitty schools that taught only the bare minimum to just push kids out into high school or the world but that has always been a thing and it probably always will be to one degree or another because there are and always will be plenty of people who just don't give a shit about it.
