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http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/oklahoma-high-school-stunned-find-100-year-chalkboard/story?id=31618253

 

If someone could post the article please, I'd be grateful. 

 Basically, these chalkboards where covered about 100 years ago while remodremodeling. 

 

The janitor didn't erase anything and added to it. It's a time capsule of what the kids at that time were learning.

It's really beautiful. 



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What kind of math is this?

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Beautiful handwriting. Something our grandchildren will not be able to read.

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I saw this a couple weeks or so ago. Absolutely love this look into history.

It's sad that there may be a day where people cannot read cursive. So much will be lost.

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It's already happening. It isn't even taught anymore.

There will be a day very soon when no one can read our Declaration of Independence.

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Names on the board, I wonder why.

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I agree that that is a beautiful peek into history.

I am also saddened by the lack of cursive being taught in schools. One day in the very near future it will be a "dead language".

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Oklahoma High School Stunned to Find 100-Year-Old Chalkboard Lessons

 

 

PHOTO: Chalkboard lessons dating back to 1917 were found at Emerson High School.
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Sherry Read said she was amazed to learn that 100-year-old chalkboard lessons had been found in her classroom, among others, during a renovation of Emerson High School in Oklahoma.

"It's like walking through an art museum," she told ABC News. "You just sit there and stare at every picture."

Read, who teaches math of finance and geometry to juniors and seniors, said the school was built back in 1911, just six years prior to the teachings on the blackboards.

 

Tossing the Script: The End of the Line for Cursive?

 

 

 

 

PHOTO: Teacher Sherry Read said the school plans on preserving the lessons.
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PHOTO: Teacher Sherry Read said the school plans on preserving the lessons.

 

 

 

 

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The drawings were uncovered behind all four of the classroom's existing chalkboards on June 2, when construction workers were remodeling the second floor of the school.

 

"It's kind of been a mystery trying to figure out why this was left up there," Read said. "They put music up there, math problems up there. It's seeing a glimpse of the past and what they had to work with and the penmanship is just awesome."

 

PHOTO: Construction workers first came across the lessons while remodeling the school.
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PHOTO: Construction workers first came across the lessons while remodeling the school.

 

 

The untouched boards revealed lessons in math, music, a written history on the pilgrims, and a countdown until Christmas day.

 

The writings were dated on December 1917.

"It's been neat just to touch history," Read said. "To see this being preserved just makes my heart filled with joy. Knowing that this was behind my wall all this time is pretty fascinating."

Still school is out for the summer, students of Emerson have yet to see the chalkboards in person.

Read said the administration at Emerson is exploring plans on how they can preserve the writings

 



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