what the hells dip and scratch it? is it like an etch-a-sketch?
you'd have to look very hard to find a blackboard in an english primary school nowadays. maybe somewhere rural. its all whiteboards.
The monitor put the ink in the well, then the pen was dipped in and writing sort of scratched onto the paper.
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I was thinking it would be all smart board touch technology now.