When I was in high school, I was ridiculed for enrolling in typing class. The perception was it was a class for girls and dumb kids (and dumb girls). In the vernacular: "a blow-off class".
It is all in the name.
In a Fortune 100 company where I worked, when executives and managers began to get terminals on their desks (this preceded PCs by several years), the training branch began offering class in
Typing and they were a total flop. So we changed the
title of the course to "
Keyboarding" and the classes immediately filled up. Then we we began receiving complaints that managers and executives did not like attending classes with the clerical personnel. So once again back to the course catalog where we began offering the same curriculum, with the same instructors, under the title:
Management Computing Skills.
