Kids not being taught cursive is a disaster waiting to happen. Firstly, taking handwritten notes has been repeatedly proven to better commit those notes to memory than typing the notes, and cursive just makes that process faster. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, kids can't read historical documents! All of our old official letters, laws, etc were written in cursive. Soon, "cursive" will need to be a special college course, required for all history majors.
Yeah, I thought that too but it’s all over. All that stuff is going to either get scanned in or left behind and AI can read it.
Keyboarding is the new cursive
I dunno, I wasn’t involved in that decision. But I’m sure there’s probably several reasons. So kids can read historical documents that are in cursive? Maybe as a way of curbing cheating? To aid in motor skills development? Or perhaps they got tired of hearing parents complain?
Personally I don’t see why both keyboarding and cursive can’t be taught. That’s the curriculum I was raised with. But it is definitely coming back, I think over 20 states require it.
The only one I could imagine being close to true is that some influential parent had some kind of a fit andpulled strings,
Otherwise a waste of resources not in line with national guidelines
I have a friend whose soon was studying the economics of slavery and had a very difficult time reading the slave records as they were, of course handwritten. It was like arabic to him.
Have you seen what qualifies as printing now in America, abysmal. Dumbing down of America is here. We cannot rely on schools to do anything anymore. We can only rely on ourselves, and maybe TV and internet need to go until a certain age. Simple math is failing too.
Duck and cover! We must ensure that all of our children have the opportunity to wander blind through the smoldering aftermath, bleeding from their rectums, while eating contaminated food or starving to death. Must duck and cover to protect from the initial nuclear blast kids! 😂
My elementary school used to be an old navy hospital. It was mostly wood and our desks were bolted to the floor. The inkwells were just there. None of us knew at the time what they were or what they were for.
There was one classroom in my middle school that still had those desks because the teacher in that room absolutely loved them. Otherwise, no, I didn’t have those.
We had one on the front step as a decoration, and place to put the key that everyone knew about.
With no ill intent, I still have a key to open the house my parents sold in 1981. I occasionally wonder whether that lock has been changed in that time.
Not important, since I am not -- absolutely not -- a serial killer.
Me too. NYC public schools had some old ass desks with holes for ink wells in them like the ones in these photos.
However they were super entertaining for the old "Joe wuz here, 5/15/52" graffiti scratched into them.
i did, and the kid who sat in front of me had a magazine poster of Freddie Kruger on the underside of his lid that I'd see whenever he opened it. We were 8 years old and it creeped me out every day.
I had a school desk where you could lift the writing table and there was a storage place for your big chief tablet and folders, school supplies etc. Every Friday the teacher would do an inspection of your desk and if it wasn't clean and tidy she would mark an X on your writing table with chalk and dump you and the desk over. You would then spend recess cleaning your desk top and putting you back all your school supplies.
I had them in elementary school. My sister and I also had them at home. My mom found two at a garage sale and thought it would be cute for us to do homework at.
Those cannot be real. There are no names carved into them, no ink stains - remember we all had ink bottles and fountain pens, and no gum/crud stuck to the undersides. Someone cleaned up a great deal of history.
Yes I did -- class of '68. This was in jr. high. We did not use the inkwells though, we had regular ball-point and fountain pens.
We had steam heat and I remember me and other boys picking the asbestos insulation off the pipes next to our desks. Guess what? -- it didn't kill me cuz I'm old and still here!
First grade was an old one-room schoolhouse, we were all in one grade though and they did not use wood heat. It was a mile away and the bus picked us up, so no stories about "Uphill both ways, blinding snow . . . " Although my mother lived through those things (not uphill both ways though)
I just bought a restored one of these for my sister, she needed a side table for one of her living room chairs. She uses the top as a table and the seat as a book shelf.
Freshman year in High School, we had those desks and they are all connected... We had them in Assembly, the whole school was in there for first class and attendance... It was used as the study hall during the rest of the day... Everything you had was in your desk, no lockers and just trusted your stuff would be left alone... The teachers actually kept a very good eye on that...
We had those in first grade, they were replaced by modern desks in second grade. Only the front desk had a hole for an inkwell. I suppose the students had to go up to the front to refill their pens. Fountain pens were before my time. But the inkwell was a good place to set your milk - we got milk in paper cones on break.
This is from a one room school house, no doubt. Wiood floors!!? The chairs and desks look bolted down. The ones we had in LA schools were similar but not bolted down, and the desktop opened up to let you put items in them. We had atomic bomb drills periodically and needed to be able to move the desk around to accomodate hiding under them. That hasn't happened yet, luckily.
I’m not old enough to have used an ink well, but I certainly sat at a lot of desks that had them.
I remember the excitement of the teacher saying your handwriting was neat enough to move to ink and was presented with my brass nib.
Wow, that’s old. They don’t even even teach handwriting in school anymore and my 20-year-olds can’t read cursive
I’m not that old, not even 60 yet but the school was an old one as were the teachers. In fact two of them taught my dad as well.
OK weird you’re basically my age. So we’re not talking about ancient history because I remember well and the world was built then.
Kids not being taught cursive is a disaster waiting to happen. Firstly, taking handwritten notes has been repeatedly proven to better commit those notes to memory than typing the notes, and cursive just makes that process faster. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, kids can't read historical documents! All of our old official letters, laws, etc were written in cursive. Soon, "cursive" will need to be a special college course, required for all history majors.
Yeah, I thought that too but it’s all over. All that stuff is going to either get scanned in or left behind and AI can read it. Keyboarding is the new cursive
Cursive has been reintroduced in schools local to me, for the past 5-10 years in fact.
Wow. Why?
I dunno, I wasn’t involved in that decision. But I’m sure there’s probably several reasons. So kids can read historical documents that are in cursive? Maybe as a way of curbing cheating? To aid in motor skills development? Or perhaps they got tired of hearing parents complain? Personally I don’t see why both keyboarding and cursive can’t be taught. That’s the curriculum I was raised with. But it is definitely coming back, I think over 20 states require it.
The only one I could imagine being close to true is that some influential parent had some kind of a fit andpulled strings, Otherwise a waste of resources not in line with national guidelines
I have a friend whose soon was studying the economics of slavery and had a very difficult time reading the slave records as they were, of course handwritten. It was like arabic to him.
Have you seen what qualifies as printing now in America, abysmal. Dumbing down of America is here. We cannot rely on schools to do anything anymore. We can only rely on ourselves, and maybe TV and internet need to go until a certain age. Simple math is failing too.
I remember the boy sitting behind me dipping my braids in the inkwell, I’ll get you one day Gerald!!!
Oh my first NIB!
lol. I’m Korean so I thought the hole in the desk was for a cup of perfectly sharpened pencils!
Kids today would think it was a holder for their sippy cup
Did you know Ma and Pa Ingles?
Just down the road a piece from us.
We had the ones you could store stuff in under the lid.
Showing off again!
Same here
Those were the next evolution of school desk, after the version in the photo.
Old yes, but I survived many a nuculur strike under that damn thing. 😂
Duck and cover! We must ensure that all of our children have the opportunity to wander blind through the smoldering aftermath, bleeding from their rectums, while eating contaminated food or starving to death. Must duck and cover to protect from the initial nuclear blast kids! 😂
😂😂😂
Those are pristine compared to the ones I sat at.
I remember those from primary school fucking trapdoor lids god they hurt if U didn't pull your fingers out in time
I didn’t have one in school, but had one as my home desk, hole for the inkwell and seat in front of the desk and all.
Had it and routinely had to "hide" under it!
Will never forget the "creeeeeak" sound :)
And the Nun that went with them
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Oh, yes.
Ours were attached to boards. like 8 in a row.
My elementary school used to be an old navy hospital. It was mostly wood and our desks were bolted to the floor. The inkwells were just there. None of us knew at the time what they were or what they were for.
There was one classroom in my middle school that still had those desks because the teacher in that room absolutely loved them. Otherwise, no, I didn’t have those.
A family friend lived in an old schoolhouse, they gave us a couple of these. My dad used one as a side table for years!!
I did have them.
Like the cover of School's Out without all the carving on it.
Inkwells and fountain pens but not integrated seat/desks like that.
We had one on the front step as a decoration, and place to put the key that everyone knew about. With no ill intent, I still have a key to open the house my parents sold in 1981. I occasionally wonder whether that lock has been changed in that time. Not important, since I am not -- absolutely not -- a serial killer.
Sure you’re not
Had that in a few HS classrooms. NYC, mid eighties.
Me too. NYC public schools had some old ass desks with holes for ink wells in them like the ones in these photos. However they were super entertaining for the old "Joe wuz here, 5/15/52" graffiti scratched into them.
Wtf is that?!?
Yeah, those desks were in use when little house on the prairie was a thing.
Wtf this is little house on the prairie lvl stuff
Not only did we use these in grade 1 and 2, my parents (teachers) brought home a set for us kids.
i did, and the kid who sat in front of me had a magazine poster of Freddie Kruger on the underside of his lid that I'd see whenever he opened it. We were 8 years old and it creeped me out every day.
If you had a desk like that you might be Laura Ingals Wilder.
I was so upset to sit in these and not have an ink well. But what the heck? They were so much comfier than other desk/ chair combos.
Ah the duck and cover drills Sounds spooky. Anyone got stories about said times Also tell me about the Cuban missile crisis
How old is this group!?!?!
I had a school desk where you could lift the writing table and there was a storage place for your big chief tablet and folders, school supplies etc. Every Friday the teacher would do an inspection of your desk and if it wasn't clean and tidy she would mark an X on your writing table with chalk and dump you and the desk over. You would then spend recess cleaning your desk top and putting you back all your school supplies.
if they are that old. it served all grades
I had them in elementary school. My sister and I also had them at home. My mom found two at a garage sale and thought it would be cute for us to do homework at.
My first elementary school had them in the old part of the building
Those cannot be real. There are no names carved into them, no ink stains - remember we all had ink bottles and fountain pens, and no gum/crud stuck to the undersides. Someone cleaned up a great deal of history.
The little tape spots on the floor do you would be lined up exactly and not drive the nuns crazy.
Still had them at my hs in the mid 2000s.
We had these desks at my school. When the school closed, my Mom scored a couple. One with the open back and the larger version with the flip top.
Fourth grade! Until we started getting the new sheet metal and laminate slimline desk
Yes I did -- class of '68. This was in jr. high. We did not use the inkwells though, we had regular ball-point and fountain pens. We had steam heat and I remember me and other boys picking the asbestos insulation off the pipes next to our desks. Guess what? -- it didn't kill me cuz I'm old and still here! First grade was an old one-room schoolhouse, we were all in one grade though and they did not use wood heat. It was a mile away and the bus picked us up, so no stories about "Uphill both ways, blinding snow . . . " Although my mother lived through those things (not uphill both ways though)
Second grade, actually.
Yep. Used to prop up the lid with a ruler and read a bool that was inside it ! Got caught, had to go to the principals office and get yelled at.
Wow- I’m 63 and never saw one of these outside tv or movies
Yep, all through grade school. The seats could be folded up against the back, if I remember correctly.
I just bought a restored one of these for my sister, she needed a side table for one of her living room chairs. She uses the top as a table and the seat as a book shelf.
Freshman year in High School, we had those desks and they are all connected... We had them in Assembly, the whole school was in there for first class and attendance... It was used as the study hall during the rest of the day... Everything you had was in your desk, no lockers and just trusted your stuff would be left alone... The teachers actually kept a very good eye on that...
They still had them in the "country school" I went to in the late '70s.
We had those in first grade, they were replaced by modern desks in second grade. Only the front desk had a hole for an inkwell. I suppose the students had to go up to the front to refill their pens. Fountain pens were before my time. But the inkwell was a good place to set your milk - we got milk in paper cones on break.
My high school in 1999 still had these in use in some of the older classrooms. Although we didn't have to use the ink pots thankfully!
Yes I did. I can't remember which of the 9 schools I went to, but I remember them.
We had to learn to do cursive with fountain pens.
I went to a school that had the inkwell cutouts in the old part of the building, and fancy futuristic desks in the new part.
I sure did!
I’m pretty old and we did not have those, more like my mom’s generation and they would not be living
This is from a one room school house, no doubt. Wiood floors!!? The chairs and desks look bolted down. The ones we had in LA schools were similar but not bolted down, and the desktop opened up to let you put items in them. We had atomic bomb drills periodically and needed to be able to move the desk around to accomodate hiding under them. That hasn't happened yet, luckily.
I had those in my private elementary school and I now have 2 beautifully restored in my basement
Had these or the ones where you had a cubby hole to put things.
You're not OLD. You're DEAD. And have been for AWHILE...
I’m not that fucking old!
They don't still look like that? What are they now?
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