[senco-forum] Handwriting

Slates Sharon? Luxury! In the 50's slates were regarded as much too expensive! We were given foolscap sized boards of a new-fangled material called hardboard -- painted matt-black. Smooth on one side and producing ridiculous dimpled wrting on the other!

Problem was they split in half when you hit your irritating desk partner over the head with them!

The great thing about slate boards from the teacher's point of view, was that all trace of the pupil's embarrassing attempts at writing could be obliterated at a stroke of a felt board rubber -- particulalry useful when the Headteacher was seen striding down the corridor -- Brendan  

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From: SEN at tringham.net
To: kngbrndn at aol.com; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Sent: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11.04AM
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Handwriting

You had ink!  In  the early 70's some were given slates and told that their
writing was so poor they could not be given precious paper and ink until
they improved their writing.  Great for character building no doubt!
Sharon

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Problem was (despite the impossibility of this to many youngsters) we had
very poor quality paper in our copybooks, and we wrote with school-made
powdered watered-down ink, with pens who's nibs were ruined from being used
as darts. So it was like writing on blotting paper with a couple of tightly
crossed pieces of scratchy fine-wire. Ink-wells used to be plugged with
blotting paper by wags, just to make the writing task a complete nightmare.

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