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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 1917; blackboard; chalkboard; education; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; oklahoma; oklahomacity; oklahomaschool; sherrykishore
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To: MinorityRepublican
heather has two mommies photo: Heather Has Two Mommies heather.jpg

It's sexist, homophobic, and promotes religion...and even has non-common core methods of learning multiplication.

61 posted on 06/07/2015 12:21:14 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Name that witness

Ole Goiterneck.

62 posted on 06/07/2015 12:29:00 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Organic Panic

You can tell he’s an old white guy because he didn’t know how to spell “ur”.


63 posted on 06/07/2015 12:31:14 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Neanderthal

I read a note written by a teacher last week who did it. Something about funding and he wrote, “If we don’t do this we will loose the money...” ARRGH! It did come around 10 years ago, I don’t know why. I think the best I ever read was on one forum these two guys where exchanging nasty posts at one another, and one guy wrote “Are you a little lose in the head or something? Why don’t you shut up looser!” LOL!


64 posted on 06/07/2015 12:32:16 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: windcliff

...chalkboard ping....

“Oh, Miss Crabtree, there’s something heavy on my heart.”


65 posted on 06/07/2015 12:39:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Kozy

Bests the heck out of Common Core!


66 posted on 06/07/2015 12:39:22 PM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

decided to show an Adventures in Odyssey video (yes video) in Kid’s Church. . . “Escape from the Forbidden Matrix”. . .a 2001 video which shows the dangers of getting hooked on video games which perpetuates wasted time. . . . that video was a self fulfilling prophecy. . .roll the calendar forward 14 years and what do we have now. It is very sad. The discussion afterwards was mind boggling. I am truly repentant for my wasted years but this has become an epidemic that is downright unhealthy mentally, physically and spiritually. Jacks and pick-up sticks anyone?

I tutor and the students can’t print, write, spell, memorize math facts, and read.


67 posted on 06/07/2015 12:45:00 PM PDT by Maudeen
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To: Don W

hate tah(to)say it I blow it on those all the time...


68 posted on 06/07/2015 12:47:14 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Mr. K

I am not a teacher


69 posted on 06/07/2015 12:48:03 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I bet back then they taught kids the difference between “lose” and “loose”.

you left out "louse"

70 posted on 06/07/2015 12:49:25 PM PDT by woofie
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To: CGASMIA68

plus the last place I ever intend to be sure my spelen and gramer a good is here so don’t look for it


71 posted on 06/07/2015 12:51:34 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: hanamizu

How does it work?

I see a sequence of 2-4-6-8
Then a 3; the third number after that is a 6; the third after that is a 12.
I don’t see an obvious pattern otherwise.


72 posted on 06/07/2015 12:56:14 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: discostu

Wash the chalk Boards ??!!?

NOT MY YOBS MANGA !


73 posted on 06/07/2015 12:56:35 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

And “you’re” and “your”.


74 posted on 06/07/2015 12:59:14 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MinorityRepublican

What? no drawings of teachers teaching kids how to put a condom on a banana? no descriptions of homosexual acts? no asking kids if their parents have guns?


75 posted on 06/07/2015 1:01:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Zeneta

76 posted on 06/07/2015 1:02:05 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberals support high taxes on alcohol, tobacco and wealth. And all for the same reason.)
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To: Zeneta
That can’t be real.

There was no color in 1917.

Of course you are absolutely correct.

Color was invented sometime around 1939, in the middle of the production of The Wizard of Oz.

77 posted on 06/07/2015 1:04:05 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Hostage

“There was no colored chalk in 1917? Really?”

This is an oblique reference to a Calvin and Hob cartoon where Calvin’s father explains that old TV shows are in B&W because there was no color until 1970.

I looked for a link the strip but couldn’t find it. IT is one of the funniest things you will ever read


78 posted on 06/07/2015 1:09:16 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If those were in Mrs. Dendy’s classroom there would still be 100 y/o students in there too. No one left her class till the boards were cleaned, hell or high water.


79 posted on 06/07/2015 1:12:22 PM PDT by jstaff
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To: enraged

That was the first thing I thought of too seeing the headline!


80 posted on 06/07/2015 1:16:33 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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