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Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school
The Washington Post ^ | June 6, 2015 | Elahe Izadi

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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 1917; blackboard; chalkboard; education; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; oklahoma; oklahomacity; oklahomaschool; sherrykishore
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To: CGASMIA68

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41 posted on 06/07/2015 11:31:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess Thunderbolt and Lightfoot forgot their stash at this school.


42 posted on 06/07/2015 11:33:51 AM PDT by enraged
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To: Delta 21

WOW!!


43 posted on 06/07/2015 11:34:23 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, this proves there was no education for kids back in 1917. There’s no illustration of how to put on condoms nor illicit sex. No common core instruction.


44 posted on 06/07/2015 11:35:33 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Don Corleone

Yep, I learned to write cursive via a 1920s-vintage penmanship schoolbook. I recall being really keen on getting a head-start and writing in script before it was taught in class the following schoolyear. Of course, it taught the old style of writing “r” in script, along with the not-crossing the “t” when it ended a word. Which I had to revert to the more modern style at school.

I don’t know what became of that book. It was a small softback book, and I guess it just got so worn that my mother threw it out. It almost assuredly belonged to my grandmother. As a grade-school kid learning to read, I used to read many of her 1910s-era children’s books, along with my father’s from the 1930s/40s.


45 posted on 06/07/2015 11:36:50 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Zeneta
There was no color in 1917.

Maybe the kids were insane.

http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html

46 posted on 06/07/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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To: upchuck

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???


47 posted on 06/07/2015 11:38:36 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; CGASMIA68

And, “your and you’re”......and “yore”.


48 posted on 06/07/2015 11:42:54 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Zeneta

Maybe the kid doing it was insane.

http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html


49 posted on 06/07/2015 11:43:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MinorityRepublican

This story also reminds me of something I encountered in a tiny, tiny Louisiana town a couple of decades back. There were two old, small buildings, built side-by-side, and were pretty much the only two non-residential buildings in that tiny-spot-in-the-road town. One had been a grocery store way back, and the other was the ‘city hall.’

The brick ‘city hall’ was torn down, and it revealed on the side of the long-closed grocery building was a great, painted “Dr. Pepper” advertisement, which dated probably to the late-1930s (based on my knowledge of its look and style) and had apparently been hidden ever since the other building was built up against its wall. Beautifully preserved. This town was nearly 200 miles from where I lived, but when I got home, I wrote to the town, imploring them to try to preserve the advertisement. Never got any response. Alas, next time I drove by, six months later, it had totally been painted over.


50 posted on 06/07/2015 11:44:26 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Back in the day, they were called blackboards.


They use White boards now.

It’s a no win box of PC stupidity.


51 posted on 06/07/2015 11:44:46 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

But, no Kodachrome or Ektachrome.


52 posted on 06/07/2015 11:45:22 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan
Funny comment: “Hundred bucks says that method of teaching multiplication was infinitely more effective than Common Core.”

To compare the traditional teach methods of the 1910’s to Common Core you would have to divide the successes of the 1910’s by the successes of Common Core.

So considering that Common Core is totally ineffective or put it mathematically zero percent effective and the teaching methods of the 1910’gave us the birth of quantum mechanics and the electrical grid so you would put the value of those methods at a sizably large number.

Therefore having the effectiveness of 1910’s methods valued at a large number divided by Common Core methods valued at zero we must say that effectiveness of Common Core methods are “undefined”.

53 posted on 06/07/2015 11:47:11 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Enterprise

LOL!


54 posted on 06/07/2015 11:49:14 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I bet back then they taught kids the difference between “lose” and “loose”.

The confusion about lose and loose just came out of nowhere about ten years ago. Before that no one confused the two. Now the problem is everywhere and it really annoys me.

55 posted on 06/07/2015 11:49:49 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: Delta 21

I’ll bet that kid grew up to be a Marine.


56 posted on 06/07/2015 11:49:58 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Thumper1960

More like 50 shades of gray.


57 posted on 06/07/2015 11:50:49 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


58 posted on 06/07/2015 12:03:09 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


59 posted on 06/07/2015 12:10:50 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MinorityRepublican
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60 posted on 06/07/2015 12:12:59 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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