Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up - Plot & Excerpts
As beaches, campgrounds, and amusement parks became noticeably quiet, the children returning to school from kindergarten to the twelfth grade were, for the first time, all Boomers. Predictions from the forties and fifties that the surge in births would eventually affect every aspect of the public school system had now become reality, and there was no hint that the situation would change in the foreseeable future. One small consolation in this ongoing demographic crisis was that the United States now had a school population that completed the entire sequence of grades up to high school graduation in overwhelming numbers. Thus projections for future enrollments would be accurate enough to plan for faculty and facilities expansion if teachers could be found and funds raised. Yet in the fall of 1963 the educational establishment, the Boomers, and their parents were about to enter uncharted territory: students had a legal right to education through high school, but they had no such right to higher education.
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