How well I remember. In those days, I was a military citizen of a wealthy, powerful,English-speaking, and energy-independent country, which had already survived a 2 years of a disastrous, illegally elected President, who was showing us what you could do with public perceptions, if you owned the media.
It was a lesson wasted on the Republicans.
You, BTW, were a member of one of the last high school classes that actually received a an American citizen's education. The Great Dumbing-Down was just getting started; the movement that has turned Americans into the wheezing, obese, unkempt, illiterate slugs one sees in every Wal-Mart parking lot.
“..wheezing, obese, unkempt, illiterate slugs one sees in every Wal-Mart parking lot.”
Gosh, thanks a bunch. Now I ‘m going to have a vision of a 280 lb. woman in stretch pants, a too-tight T-shirt, with dirty hair and wearing flip-flops, running through my head the rest of the day. A pox on you!
Seriously, I do recall reading that after the class of 1964, SAT scores began to fall and continued to do so until the mid 80’s. The blame has been largely placed on the influence of TV on kids born after 1947.