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Posted on 06/07/2015 10:54:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean — nearly 100 years ago. And they haven’t been touched since.
This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City made a startling discovery: Underneath them rested another set of chalkboards, untouched since 1917.
“The penmanship blows me away, because you don’t see a lot of that anymore,” Emerson High School Principal Sherry Kishore told the Oklahoman. “Some of the handwriting in some of these rooms is beautiful.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yep, kids can’t even spell now.
Name that witness: “I don’t do cursive.” :-)
I note the word “God” appears...
The reporter or editor finds this “eerie”?
The one that mentions God probably offended him/her/\
But they sure can play video games.We’re doomed.
Many more at source.
Cursive = microagression
What’s haunting is that apparently schools have been hiring the laziest least competent contractor available for over 100 years.
That can’t be real.
There was no color in 1917.
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Wonderful find. Amazing that the people who installed the new boards left the old boards with the writing intact. Did they do that on purpose as a sort of time capsule?
1917 could not have been a happy year. The war in Europe had been going on for three years.
April 2, 1917 — President Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States
April 4, 1917 — U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany.
April 6, 1917 — The House concurred.
December 7, 1917 — The US declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary.
Moms, Dads, sisters and brothers all over the country had to be terribly worried. I wonder if the kids in the school were protected from the year’s bad news.
Love the multiplication wheel so much sent it to my daughters fro their 8 year old to learn how to multiply.
Fascinating....
Surprised they are keeping them, they are so full of lies, comb your hair, wash your face, keep your clothes clean? The pilgrim lies, mention of God.........
My mother, born around 1900 had a notebook full of penmanship exercises. The students worked on writing everyday. The work was incredible. Boys and girls both had excellent penmanship.
There was no colored chalk in 1917? Really?
I call the piece “what kind of lazy bum just hangs new chalkboards over old chalkboards and can’t even be bothered to wash them off first?” Anthropologically it’s kind of cool, but as evidence of business practice it’s kind of pathetic.
The word “God” was in that school all that time?
Sherry Kishore told the Oklahoman. “Some of the handwriting in some of these rooms is beautiful.”
Don’t say much about teachers these days now do it Sherry.....and your one
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