In primary school in the 30s I remember me and my best pal sitting at the back of the class falling about laughing as we listend to and watched a lady teacher with a very posh vioce singing 'Dashing away with a smoothing iron' and doing the actions. We did not know the Headmaster was behind us till he banged both our heads togather. (you could do things like that to children then) This convinced me that I did not like folk music.It took me thirty years to come round to that which has since become a great part of my life. But I think that at that time folk was compulsory in English schools probably taught by people who knew little about it and didn't really want to teach it
and is one of the reasons why a whole generation will have nothing to do with it.