Comment by Aurornis

> I guess I wasn't really thinking about it in the context of jobs since the post was about kids.

The primary reason kids would use office tools is for classwork, which is not dissimilar from job work.

If you're submitting a book report or something it doesn't matter what you're using to write it. However, once you get into group projects (which are very common, in my experience) being the odd one out who can't work with others is really not good.

Kids also learn how to use computers at most schools. They're probably exposed to some combination of MS Office and/or Google Docs products already.