As a high school freshman I mentioned with awe to classmate Nick Shectman that a student at my previous school (Steve Garvin) understood computers better than did the computer teacher. At risk of aging myself, Garvin could do things with Radio Shack TRS-80s that were well beyond the capabilities of the teacher. When Shectman heard this, he calmly told me that he wasn’t surprised. He went on to explain that anyone truly knowledgeable about computers wouldn’t be teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th graders about them.
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