Any time schools start trying to support any type of music that is liable to be disastrous for it, apart maybe for a tiny number of fast track performers.

Much better to have it denounced and banned.

It seems young people want to do stuff that they feel their parents know nothing about and don't approve of. That should mean that, provided we can get it seen as a bit dangerous and generally unsavoury, the next generation along should get quite interested in folk music.

Meanwhile there is probably far more actual music being played, and played far better, than was ever the case in the time of the last folk boom.