We're talking about 1977, when schools still taught traditional education. I graduated high school in the south in 1977.
Remember, back in 1977, the Vietnam War ended only five years earlier. Etowah County had the fourth largest casualty rate in Alabama. The OPEC oil embargo happened only four years earlier. Richard Nixon resigned only three years earlier. SNL debuted two years earlier. Jimmy Carter was elected the year before.
Girls (and boys) back then were a lot more tuned in to things than high schoolers today.
-PJ
I had young children in the 70’s and early 80’s. If they could have had the type of education we had in the mid fifties and sixties, there wouldn’t be so many airheads of both sexes. I shudder to think what kids are being indoctrinated with, nowadays. I worry about my grandkids.