Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school

The Washington Post ^ | June 6, 2015 | Elahe Izadi

[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.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I bet back then they taught kids the difference between “lose” and “loose”.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The poster means the whole world was black and white back then. It’s true - I’ve seen the films. :)

[hanamizu]

The superintendent said he’d never seen multiplication taught using the circle. That’s how I was taught in the mid 50s. Teacher would point to the x6 and then to a 7 and the class would shout “42”. We’d do the drill for ten or fifteen minutes every day. We were expected to know the answers as well as our own names—ie. you weren’t supposed to have to about it. Very few kids today really know their times tables.

[Don W]

It’s a joke reference to a “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon where Calvin’s father tells the brat that there was no colour in the world until 1954.

Yet we wonder why Calvin was such a handful < BG >

[Yaelle]

Pretty cool. And remember, those teachers drew those colorful drawings after school. They didn’t leave the second the union told them they could — they worked on their GASP own time.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean —"

On that chalkboard it says "shower". I think it means shower as in weather and not a bath tub shower.

[Zeneta]

The poster means the whole world was black and white back then. It’s true - I’ve seen the films. :)

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Aahh, Bach.

[Yaelle]

Why did they replace all the blackboards at Thanksgiving in war time, I wonder?

[windcliff]

Did a Google search and it says it was invented in the 1800’s.

[Don W]

And likely the difference between there, their and they’re, too. (To and two) I could go on, but...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe they had Technicolor back in 1917!

[Hostage]

Oh...Ok.

[Enterprise]

Cursive is retarded.

[Zeneta]

Maybe they had Technicolor back in 1917!

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Maybe only for the White or privileged Jews.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Funny comment: “Hundred bucks says that method of teaching multiplication was infinitely more effective than Common Core.”

[fulltlt]

"I bet back then they taught kids the difference between “lose” and “loose”."

....and series & serious, and hugh & huge, and beeber & beeper

[RIghtwardHo]

Amazing!!

[upchuck]

“Educators” today could learn a lot from these old chalk boards. I’m surprised the school district wants to save them.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[Delta 21]

Mysterious ancient scribblings!