I think its funny they call them chalkboards now. Back in the day, they were called blackboards. Did they change the name from blackboard because blackboard was racist???
Back in the day, they were called blackboards.
They use White boards now.
It’s a no win box of PC stupidity.
As I grew up, I attended school in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, KS and northern NJ. I always referred to them as blackboards.
I think the change to chalkboard may have happened when black lost favor to green. Supposedly easier to read. So the name changed to the generic chalkboard.
They changed the name because they were green in the 60s and 70s, white in the 2000s. They stopped being black long before calling something black was a bad thing.
Probably it is endemic to where you are from. Where I’m from they were called chalkboards. As I progressed in my educational experience they were sometimes called blackboards.
Growing up in the ‘60s we called them both because some were actually green.
By the time I was going to school, the classic black slate had been supplanted in some cases by a light/medium green “slate”. I suppose at that point the term “blackboard” had lost some of its value...kids did notice the difference!
A fellow in my old hometown, who went to school at one of the same schools I did (albeit decades earlier), went on a rant about the replacement of the school’s chalkboards with whiteboards and projection screens in the 00’s. He did have a point...chalkboards don’t have BSOD moments or go dry when left out, and besides, think of all the generations of students that had been educated with those boards since the 1920s. :(
Well they changed the blackboards to green boards (easier on the eyes) so perhaps that’s why the name was changed to chalkboards.