America 1982

He had received the most lavish praises, and he had harvested the nastiest curses. He was a guy whose every vein pulsed with defiance. He was a white boy who could never become a celebrity. He was a youth from the countryside in the eyes of the masses. He was Tommy Hawk. He had been reborn. Welcome to the story that tells of the American Dream in the first half and the American nightmare in the second. Let's invite Tommy Hawk to take the stage, in the winter of 2022.

A spoonful of the past · Urban

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Chapter 6: You Are My Hope

"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.

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