When I went through high school in the mid-70’s...they had one single typing class for a high-school (9th through 12th) of 280 students....so on average, there were 25 kids in that class per year. Oddly, the same instructor had two accounting classes per day. I’d take a guess that yearly from the graduates of the high school...maybe twenty percent took the typing classes.
The objective, from what I can figure was that no one figured typing was a skill worth job placement except for secretaries and administrative people.
When I joined the Air Force...even though I already typed 30 words a minute...they sent me onto their typing classes and I started from step one (total waste). Today, I don’t see how you’d want to skip the class....your whole career potential is tied to typing today.
Hillary was in junior high long before the 1970s and the feminist movement.
For Hillary it would have been the early 1960s.
“Of course, typing skills aren’t something that has arisen only in the age of computers. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, most schools in the United States offered typing classes to students in junior high and high school, though generally not to students in lower grades. As computers became more a part of normal everyday life, schools began to assume that students were learning keyboarding on their own, at home. Unfortunately, this assumption has led to a situation where students are coming into their classrooms without the keyboarding abilities they need, and leaving the classroom equally unprepared for further educational or professional development.”