{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I ended up on a totally weird middle school elective schedule cause they were like \"oh he's smart, we gotta skip him to Computer...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/716176150302507008/", "html": "<p>I ended up on a totally weird middle school elective schedule cause they were like &ldquo;oh <i>he&rsquo;s</i> smart, we gotta skip him to Computer <b>2</b>&rdquo; even though that whole sequence was really typing and I didn&rsquo;t know how to touch-type</p><p>Means I never got to take Home Ec, which I regretted for a while but at this point what was I gonna learn in 7th grade?</p><p>Means that my schedule worked out so I took shop class (one quarter but double-length &ldquo;block scheduled&rdquo;) to the second level, which leaves me with a bit of CAD familiarity and honestly some pre-computerized diagramming mentality</p>"}