I seem to recall learning to type when I was like 4 years old.
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I honestly can't really comment to how the school system is today. It's been 15 years since I was in K-12 education. While I certainly think there were plenty of ways my education was sub-par (like a history teacher telling me manifest destiny was a form of isolationism), in general I feel like I learned a lot.