To the editor: Not lengthy after Sid and Marty Krofft’s triumphantly cheesy exhibits enlivened Saturday mornings, reforms had been put into place concerning kids’s leisure (“Appreciation: Sid Krofft’s subversive and fantastical TV puppet worlds will stay 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? A long time later, take a look at scores and social etiquette have reached epic lows as we learn more and more of kids battling despair and nervousness. Perhaps it’s time to carry again playful silliness.
Kevin Dawson, Burbank
