Our district has a typing curriculum but students still can't type by middle school, what's actually going wrong
We have a district-mandated keyboarding program. It's been in place for years. Students are supposed to be doing it from 2nd grade up. And yet I get 6th graders who type with two fingers and have clearly never internalized anything from it.
My theory is that the program exists on paper but nobody enforces time on it, so teachers squeeze it in when convenient or skip it entirely when other things come up. By the time students get to me there's a huge range, some are totally fluent, some look like they've never seen a keyboard before, and I can't tell if the curriculum is the problem or the implementation.
Curious whether other teachers have seen this and whether the fix was actually a different program or just better accountability around using the one you have.