A recent discussion about the potential effect of off-hand comments from a teacher brought to mind one frustrating interaction with a high school instructor.
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I had a similar Excalibur experience in high school. Fortunately, the county vocational ed center offered a computer programming course my senior year. I went there for the morning half of the day where they taught us RPG, COBOL, and a little data entry. That really did it for me, and I never turned back.