To be fair, back when the first computer labs came around in schools, the only thing really available was the Apple II. Nothing else was terribly useful for teaching how to use a computer. It was only later in the 80s that the IBM PC came around and took over for a while.
Apple famously worked very hard to put iMacs into elementary schools. Back before laptops were cheap and schools still had “computer labs.”
To be fair, back when the first computer labs came around in schools, the only thing really available was the Apple II. Nothing else was terribly useful for teaching how to use a computer. It was only later in the 80s that the IBM PC came around and took over for a while.