Incredibly detailed pictures were uncovered during a school renovation in Oklahoma. You've never seen anything like this. Click the link for more...
Ok. I wandered over expecting some sort of prehistoric bison or... Aztec-type accounting systems or some other oddity. But no. School officials are hoping to preserve for all time...
Cursive writing. And a few crude sketches of Pilgrims. I know, I know, it's kind of anti-clamatic.
I wonder how much the school district is going to pay to preserve a few chalkboards from 1917, when they could take just a little bit of time away from test prep and teach children to write in cursive today.
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Preserve the chalkboards? Just photograph them (*~*)
ReplyDeleteI suppose they could cover the writing somehow so it doesn't get destroyed, then hang them in a gallery somewhere. I agree that children should be taught writing, as we were, if not, the art may be lost in as little as two generations of keyboard typing.
I think this is nuts. It's a chalkboard with writing. It isn't even an important document.
DeleteThis is the problem with living in a newer country without lotsa castles and old relics n stuff like European places. We think stuff that's over 50 years old is ancient or something.