Office is too advanced for schools. Period.

There are too few people who can write coherent sentences, let alone format a simple document properly in any word processor. Which do you suppose is the more critical skill?

Students don't need Office. They don't need to learn Office. They don't even need to be exposed to Office.

They need to read more books. They need to understand that when they're 25 years old and can't write their way out of a wet paper bag PEOPLE WILL THINK THEY'RE UNEDUCATED (and people will be right).

How's that for a rant? :-)