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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Growing up in the ‘60s we called them both because some were actually green.
Some of the math looks like Common Core, but I doubt that was the case 100 years ago...more likely they were given an EXCELLENT EDUCATION, one without cell phones or calculators.
After all, these were the kids that won World War 2 for us when they were in the prime of their lives.
It shows how were taught to be proud of America back then. It’s been 20 or 30 years since that was true. Younger people today reflect that. They’re proud of their state or city but not nation.
You need to separate the concept of a nation form FedGov™, the 2 are different.
around that time green porcelain boards were introduced,
My favorites...
idol, idle, idyll
peak, peek, pique
pare, pair, pear
flue, flu, flew
freeze, frieze, frees
horde, hoard, whored
sent, scent, cent
sees, seas, seize
One of those things that makes English so easy to learn.
I’d bet those 1917 kids knew all of those homophones.
I know if you told the teacher ‘F You’, the teacher would hit you, then your parents would hit you. Nowadays, the teacher would either have sex with the students or the students will HIT the students because the parents don’t care today.
there was no math depicted.
it was arithmetic
I don’t confuse the two and neither do young people. They’re the ones who mention it. I’ve heard more than one story on how surprised they are that young people in Europe are so proud of their nations.
Me, too. I just want to reach through the screen and strangle the people who make that mistake.
It must be a result of the “whole language” reading method where kids were never taught to correctly sound out words using phonetics or to diagram sentences.
Maybe the problem was there for many years and we just didn’t see it. Before the Internet, you didn’t read the ramblings of thousands of semi-literates. Now even you and I have our wisdom preserved for all posterity.
We did too until we got this eraser vacuum thingy. Which was kinda cool.
But only the Teacher’s pet got to use the vacuum thingy, I’ll bet!
THe calendar is missing December 2 and 3, and the 29th seems to be highlighted in red for some reason. Perhaps this was someone’s idea of a prank.
They missed the 2nd and the 3rd, also, in addition to the 31st. There are only 28 boxes filled.
No. Mrs. Dahlen did not have any pets she only had slaves. LOL. We all took our turns cleaning the boards and erasers.
It certainly is bizarre. Also, bear in mind that Thanksgiving did not become a federal holiday until 1941, when Congress established it as the 4th Thursday in November. All those drawings of pilgrims and turkeys seem out of place in a 1917 classroom.
I’m thinking those chalkboards are not genuine after all.
I had a few like that.
“I’d bet those 1917 kids knew all of those homophones.”
Hey! We’ll put up with none of that homophonia around here! :)
How does that multiplication circle work? Any ideas?
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