[Nowhere Man]

I remember those days in grade school. When I started first grade in 1973, we had centimeter strips that took us all the way to fifth or sixth grade. Back about 1978/79, I remember PSA's on NBC on the metric system called "Metric Marvels" and of course "The Weekly Reader" was all over it.

Metric Marvels on NBC, circa 1978/79

[Army Air Corps]

Ah yes, I recall the classes in metric measures in elementary school in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

[philled]

I started elementary school the same year as you (1973.). While I don’t remember the NBC program, I do remember an A/V cart wheeled into our classroom on a weekly basis. The reception wasn’t the best, but we’d watch PBS for what was kind of like The Electric Company devoted solely to the metric system. It had a catchy theme song- I think it just repeated “It’s the metric system!” We were told how, Under President Carter, the entire USA would make the switch. And then, we never spoke of it again...