What one word do you associate with school?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What one word do you associate with school?
The answer depends on when you went to school. Walls in my K-12 classrooms were covered with blackboards—often green, but always called blackboards. Combined with the dusty chalk you couldn’t help but breathe in, blackboards were filthy and dangerous to your health. Once I got to college, whiteboards and clean, safe dry-erase markers replaced blackboards and chalk. Gentrification of writing surfaces. White chalk of long ago would get gradually and noticeably smaller over time—like telomeres at the end of chromosomes as they gracefully aged. Conversely, dry-erase markers—often black, to best contrast the whiteboard—often stop writing with no warning. An abrupt, violent end to life. Are public schools attempting to subconsciously teach students something about race? No! They’re trying to prevent lung cancer. Since I’ve experienced both blackboards and whiteboards, the word I associate with school is board. Let’s be honest, though, the real word associated with school would be its homophone: bored. If I get to say it out loud, rather than writing it, I get the ol’ 2-for-1 deal. But if I went to school today, the answer would undoubtedly be different. ChatGPT is one word, right?