Well, blackboards do generate chalk dust. And the way kids seem to
> have alergies to almost everything under the sun, and parents that
> will file contingency lawsuits if someone looks at their kids funny, I
> wonder if it is to head off lawsiuts that the chalk dust is causing
> Johnny's asthma to act up.
As a frequent user of both types of boards in the past (teaching college classes), I can say that you also get dust from whiteboards, and it's the nasty grimy powder from the dry-erase markets.
I don't like whiteboards anyways, since as a lefty they are very difficult to use; if my hand even lightly glances over what I just wrote, it wipes off, whereas chalk is fairly tolerant.
That, and I've never gotten woozy from a chalkboard, whereas an afternoon spent entirely around whiteboards with uncapped markers will give you a pretty good buzz.
Richard W Kaszeta snipped-for-privacy@kaszeta.org
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