Another fail becomes apparent

I think we all agree that the purpose of a school, of education, is to get educated. In other words, acquiring the knowledge you need in order to become a fully functioning member of society, adept in the basic skills of language, mathematics, etc. and potentially specializing yourself in whatever field.

I think schools and school boards are aware (I sincerely hope so, because otherwise, boy are we fucked) that technology plays a big part in society nowadays, and is present in all sorts of jobs, if not all of them.

So, tell me...

WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE WORD OR EXCEL!?

Don't know how to do a table of contents, don't know how to add footnotes, don't know how to make a table or graph. (I had a real horde asking me questions the eve of the PP due date)

Again, I'm pointing the finger of shame and blame on the schoolboard and CSL for having gotten rid of computer classes.

The equipment is there! Crappy I admit, you have to give some crack to the hamster running in a wheel inside the computer to get it to power up, but it's there! Microsoft Office, also admittedly shit, is there on every computer! (Except when Murphy's law screws you before a big presentation)
Why the fuck can't they find one period per 9-day cycle to teach us a little of this!?

They must think there are more important things, such as french, history, math. Granted, but you know what they want in those classes? Typed reports that can be a dozen pages long, with footnotes, annexes, table of contents, bibliography. I think it'd save lots of us lots of time if there was a computer class eh?

And the extreme example:
Some other schools have individual laptops for every student! Holy shit, you know there's a school board up North, for the Inuit, and they have a macbook for every student! How do we compete with that? I'm just asking for maybe a period every 9 school days! And if that's too long, you cheapos, make a split period with family economics, or cooking! Everybody's gotta eat, and cooking is a damn fine skill. Less people eating takeout, fast-food, or pre-prepared food and more people making their own food might just help trim the fattening obesity problem.

Now your saying that it isn't everybody who doesn't know how to use word, excel, or whatever, and that's exactly my fucking point. How did those who knew how to use these tools learn? They learned from google, wikipedia, how-to websites, forums, the freaking help document included in those software, or even their parents. Why isn't school in that list?! Isn't school supposed to teach us these things? Why did we have to resort to everything and anything BUT school to learn those things, which have clearly become essential for awhile now?

If something doesn't accomplish it's purpose, would you still use it?
If you buy a drill that doesn't drill, will you keep it?

Ponder that awhile.