jgharston wrote
Rod Speed wrote

[1] They need a lesson to understand what an OS is, and that there are
others besides Windows. They need two more lessons to understand what
Word and Excel are, and a quick overview of what they do and what they
might be used for. And that there are other programs which perform the
same sort of function. That's it.

Dunno, that gets into the whole area of what schools should be teaching.

You can make a case that if you want people to be able to use
particularly Excel to do useful stuff for themselves, even just at
home etc, they need to do a lot more with it than you propose.

And if you want them to be able to do more than just trivial documents
at work, they certainly need more than you propose with Word too.

After all, what sense does it make that kids leave school after doing the
full time at school, without being able to use something as common as
Word for the sort of thing Word gets used for at work by so many ?

Corse you can certainly make a case that say those who plan to
become plumbers, hair dressers, mechanics etc dont need that,

"You're going to be a plumber, so we're not going to teach you to read and write".

Didnt say anything like that.

It certainly doesnt make any sense to be teaching plumbers pure maths unless they want to do that.