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Tooth and Nail: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 7:44pm.
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April 1917. "Daily inspection of teeth and fingernails. Older pupils make the inspection under the direction of teacher who records results. This has been done every day this year. School #49, Comanche County, Oklahoma (near Lawton)." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Alternate version here.
How embarrassing. As if you
Submitted by Jen on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 2:33pm.
How embarrassing. As if you don't have enough to worry about being a kid in the world, interacting with other kids, but "Hey! Let me see your teeth!!"
Eek.
Terror
Submitted by gcruse on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 10:58am.
Notice how the expressions of the kids in the row being expected increment from ennui to terror the closer one is to being inspected.
Inspection
Submitted by john w forbes on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 2:15am.
I had a biology teacher 30 years ago that did the same thing to me. I wonder if this is where he learned it from.
Classrooms
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 10:53am.
School classrooms have not changed much over the years. You still have a classroom with desks facing in the direction of a blackboard or whiteboard. The addition of television, computers etc does not take away from the basic design. Of course the elimination of the potbellied stove was certainly a good thing.
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