1950s and 60s self-care and social skills movies

It's interesting to me that parents of kids with Asperger Syndrome work hard to teach their children social skills, while parents of typical kids spend little or no time worrying about this issue. It's assumed today that "regular" kids just know this stuff, while ASD kids have to learn it by rote. You can almost hear the cries of autism hysterics: "We didn't have these problems in past generations! It's the toxins!"

The fact is, in the 1950s and 60s a great deal of time was spent teaching typical children how to behave and why. A large number of educational films on social skills and self-care were created for American schoolchildren in the old days, and kids watched them in school, probably in a class called Health. It was a more formal world, and children received direct instruction, at home and at school, on manners and social etiquette. So why don't we teach this in school anymore? Why is it assumed that kids today will just know? And why do I continue to hear the school say that teaching social skills is a brand new field in special education, with no curriculum and no roadmap? Teaching this kind of thing in school is not new, and it's not specific to Asperger Syndrome or special education. The reality is that this did exist and has been lost, along with a bunch of other good stuff they used to have in school, like recess every day.

I found a few old educational movies on YouTube to watch with FW. They may seem corny, but they have social and self-care information that can be helpful to some kids with Asperger Syndrome. The basic concepts are solid. Although I suppose there's a risk of a kid with AS picking up outdated slang or wrong ideas about hairstyles, I think the benefits outweigh the risks. And watching with FW, I can help him understand the things that were then, and how we do them now. I really do wonder, though, why they don't still make these kinds of movies. I know kids snickered at them back then, but surely there were one or two kids in class watching intently, because they really needed to know.