On 26/07/2016 12:14, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 07:21:22 UTC+1, RJH wrote:
On 21/07/2016 13:55, whisky-dave wrote:



justy like they have to with blackboards or sorry we now call them
chalk boards we have white boards now by no black boards.


IME at least you're wrong there. When I did my teacher training
(mid-90s) we were 'told' to use the word chalkboard.

Why ?

Professions generally adopt a lexicon - teaching's no exception. I'd
guess in this case it was a departmental edict. Why? Fashion, trying to
do the right thing, ill-advised - I don't know.

The teaching staff
were pretty embarrassed about this, but ho hum.


embarrassed about what ?


Because it was an idiotic idea.


Even when I was at school, this came up in the mid 70s.
The physics lab had a green board installed.
As I pointed out to my coloured friend who'd I'd be introduced to as chalkie

IME, non-white people don't like being referred to as coloured. Or
chalky, unless they happen to like Jim Davidson.

a year or som ealier. We could understand why it should be called a blackboard because it was no longer black or a board, but it was called a chalboard.
NOT a green board or a blackboard, and considering it wasn't even a board we asked the physics teach why we were calling it a board. when it;s a bit cloth that goes up and down. he just said he;s calling it a a chalkboard from now on.
Well he tried to and got a bit annoyed when we shouted out chalkbaord when ever he asked us to copy down what he'd written on the black board.


Sounds a hoot.


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Cheers, Rob