General Discussion

But I grew up in Monterey County, CA, my poor daughters grew up in the CA Central Valley. Which is so conservative, it is disgusting.
My history classes made it to the early 1900's, muck rakers, and child labor laws. I don't think my daughters ever went beyond the civil war in high school.

Also, I live in an over hundred years old house and about 25 years ago, we would go on house tours for fun, the tours were always to raise money for charities. Once at a grand old house, we got stopped on an upstairs landing before we could continue, and there where 3 photos of people in their kkk costumes from the 1960's. I laughed, pointed them out to my husband, "oh, god" he said. We moved on, I turned to look back and other people were looking and shaking their heads at the pictures.

I graduated in 1969. It was a very different time. There was still corporal punishment, the threat of juvenile hall and expulsion. Every student behaved, no talking back, complete obedience. The Vietnam was was was going strong, teachers (on the west coast at least) were motivated to give you a good education..