RE: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?

[Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>]

I don't think that's universal (or United States-al, anyway); when I was
in high school in the early 70's (in West Springfield, MA), I had to kick
and claw my way into typing class, and was branded a troublemaker for my 
efforts.  And I was the only boy in the class.  Perhaps I could have taken
a commercially available class, but boys were strongly "discouraged" from
taking typing with the budding secretaries.  We "didn't need" that skill.
Most guys I know that are my age don't know how to touch type.  

And you should have seen the stink they
raised when I signed up for home ec.....
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I have no idea whether that is true in Quebec, but typing classes have 
been open to people of both sexes in all parts of the US that I'm 
familiar with for many decades. I took typing in the summer of 1961 and, 
while the instructor was a woman (as were most schoolteachers), the 
class was not predominantly female. My dad was not offered a typing 
class by the US Army in WW II only because his two-finger typing speed 
was high enough to pass the course exit exam (and so he never did learn 
to touch-type).