I went to a suburban high school in southeast Michigan. My high school had three tracks: College Prep, Business, and Vocational. Electronics was one of the Vocational subjects. They also taught "programming" to the Business students, though I have no idea at what level. I assume that these programs had been in place for many years before my time. I was in the College Prep track, so those other courses were pretty much off limits for me.
Nonetheless I got permission to sign up for Electronics. I discovered that the course was mainly going to revolve around TV repair, and the teacher even told me that I'd be bored. So I dropped it and learned that one of the math teachers had started a course in BASIC! It's not an understatement that the course changed my life.
I took votech electronics in HS; 4 hrs/day for junior and senior years. It was the opposite experience though. 1st year was analog, second was digital. Learned small signal response, Karnaugh mapping, 6502 assembly. I'm an EE now of course.
Nonetheless I got permission to sign up for Electronics. I discovered that the course was mainly going to revolve around TV repair, and the teacher even told me that I'd be bored. So I dropped it and learned that one of the math teachers had started a course in BASIC! It's not an understatement that the course changed my life.