"Double the homework for high school students! Save the future of the United States!"
"It's urgent for high schoolers to feel the college homework pressure early! We can't lose to the Soviet Union!"
A group of Stanford University men and women held up their signs, loudly preaching their slogans to passersby on the road.
This was an activity in support of educational reform aimed at increasing homework loads for American elementary and high school students. The United States Government had found that the country's basic education was worrying, with over twenty million American adults struggling to achieve satisfying scores on reading and writing tasks of middle school difficulty.
American public high school students had little interest in studying, with dating, sports, parties, and other irrelevant activities taking up most of their time every day.
