To the editor: Not lengthy after Sid and Marty Krofft’s triumphantly cheesy reveals enlivened Saturday mornings, reforms had been put into place relating to kids’s leisure (“Appreciation: Sid Krofft’s subversive and fantastical TV puppet worlds will live on,” April 13). Kidvid couldn’t be simply wacky anymore; it needed to incorporate “studying” and “values.”
So how come the reforms didn’t work? Many years later, test scores and social etiquette have reached epic lows as we learn more and more of youngsters fighting melancholy and nervousness. Perhaps it’s time to convey again playful silliness.
Kevin Dawson, Burbank
