Letting the mind wander as it does…I’m recalling back to Fridays from 40 years ago. First grade at a Catholic school. Our Science book was one subject notebook thin (and so my parents handled teaching science at home, an interesting transposition), but there was a whole computer lab because one of the sisters had chocolate bar sales like you wouldn’t believe and so there were 30 computers in one of the rooms. And on Saturdays, because most of the teachers lived there (yknow, nuns and priests, so they were there most of the time), students could sign up for time to use the computers. The sheet went out on Friday and started with the 8th graders and worked down. Any time there were spots open for first graders I took one.
Shout out to my poor mother who would get to find out I made random Saturday computer plans and getting me to the school on the weekend, where the 6th through 8th graders were writing papers and making graphs and I was barely able to reach the keyboard and see the screen but sat there coding in BASIC and playing this Snoopy word game on the weekend. Shout out to Sister Mary and Father David for being like, this kid has almost zero peer group social skills but let’s focus on this computer thing instead.