Thanks MinorityRepublican.
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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Not a good idea for *you* to throw stones. ;-)
The teacher would use a pointer to point at x2, or x3 etc. and then randomly point at a number on the outside of the circle. At the beginning of multiplication, the teacher would drill the class using the circle just using x3 for example. But once the class had mastered facts up to x9, the circle you see on the blackboard would be used. This way, the teacher, or a student could really mix the problems up. Today, by using a computer and a smart board, you could duplicate the same thing for just a few thousand dollars.
If I was a teacher I could consider yer comment iam not and don’t
You got that right.
You’re not a teacher yet you criticized one earlier in this thread.
And your two line post had at least four errors. LOL
ROFL
thEy cAn tExt th0Ugh. thAt bE En0Ugh
The thing that irks me is that those two words should not even sound alike when spoken. The first rhymes with sewer and the second rhymes with four. Unfortunately, nearly everyone pronounces them the same.
As I have said and will say again for you.I don’t give a crap about spelling and grammar on this or any other site.
Or there, they’re, their, etc.
So they taught hate speech back then? Who would have thuck it? ;-)
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.
I write like this all the time, to the point that block lettering feels somewhat unnatural....my usual pen is a Parker medium-point, which doesn’t help :-)
It is a great writing instrument; nice weight in the hand, solid construction—this remains true of the current production models.
Alas, it is a dying art—I’ve had many people complain about being unable to read my writing. *shakes head*
(I write almost exactly like the person who wrote on the blackboard nearly 100 years ago, if you want an idea of how I write—as a guy, it’s slightly worse?)
IT’s pretty easy to remember:
There: A place
Their: Belongs to them
They’re: A contraction of They Are.
As for the pronunciation post above, “yer” is a regional affectation/inflection.
Believe me, the nuns would have been quite diligent in ensuring correct enunciation of ‘you’re’ had any of us been incorrectly pronouncing it.
Really.
That is so cool! Thank you for posting this.
Thanks MinorityRepublican.
We used to dream of being the one CHOSEN to “clap the erasers”!
Maybe my mental block and lack of caring is due to recalling Sister Ann Marie smacking the crap oy of my knuckles with that “clicker” or what ever that thing was to TRY to get me to properly perform Verb Conjugation.
I hated Catholic school and everything about it.My folks wasted a lot of $$$
That’s a really good question. There was food rationing during WW I and it began before the boards were changed out. I’m guessing we weren’t in the war long enough to require other rationing as we did in WW II.
From http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/cou/us/food/w1cus-usfa.html:
A few weeks after America entered World War I, a volunteer organization was established (May 4, 1917). It soon became apparent that the War required a much greater Federal effort to address the issues concerned with food production. Food shortages began to appear as prices were rising in 1917. President Wilson established the United States Food Administration (USFA) as an independent agency by President Wilson with Executive Order EO 2679-A (August 10, 1917). The President acted under the authority of the Food and Fuel Control Act (40 Stat. 276), August 10, 1917. The task assigned to the USFA was to regulate the supply, distribution, and conservation of foods. The USFA bought and sold grain and sugar and their products through two subsidiaries: the Food Administration Grain Corporation (U.S. Grain Corporation) and the U.S. Sugar Equalization Board, Inc.
LOLOL. Sad, but true. Might as well be ancient runes...
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