End-of-school party at the CP Park pavilion  #Wordless Wednesday  #Hmm – which pic looks like the real Mrs. Ratliff?

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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45 Responses to End-of-school party at the CP Park pavilion  #Wordless Wednesday  #Hmm – which pic looks like the real Mrs. Ratliff?

  1. bekitschig says:
    June 22, 2022 at 5:03 am

    Hi Linda, thanks again for the great tip! — Lovely pictures, this is my kinda street art! 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 22, 2022 at 9:36 pm

      Hi Jeanine – really late getting here tonight … finally started using Windows 10 yesterday and had technical problems and some brain drain. Glad you liked this street art … made me laugh how the chalk art depicted their teacher. Hope the teacher liked it too. You’re welcome for the tip – saw it late and then after I popped onto your site, I sent you a Facebook link/pic to see. Like Stonehenge, you can do that celebration every June 21st!!

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  2. peggy says:
    June 22, 2022 at 5:18 am

    Like this art. Looks like the kids have been very busy.

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  3. AnnMarie R stevens says:
    June 22, 2022 at 10:04 am

    MissLinda…………………..I love children’s drawings and words………………………they must have loved school and thought it important in their lives or they wouldn’t have drawn about it

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 22, 2022 at 9:42 pm

      Ann Marie – I thought of you because they were likely elementary school kids judging from the drawings, chalk all over the pavilion floor and they had had pizza, pop and snacks, which empty boxes were spilling out of the garbage cans. Seemed like they loved their teacher and drew her and I agree with you – if they didn’t like school, they would not have drawn about it.

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  4. Laurie says:
    June 22, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    I shudder to think what my chalk portrait would look like if drawn by my former students! 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 22, 2022 at 9:46 pm

      Ha ha – their drawings would not be bad Laurie as I have seen your photos. You were a high school teacher, so those kids would have their own style of drawing … (or maybe not). These were the best of the bunch, the rest were scribbles and slashes. But then in the corner, away from the “portraits” was the teacher’s name, a revered soul by the kids. 🙂

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  6. J P says:
    June 22, 2022 at 3:29 pm

    It looks like Mrs Ratliff has had a few bad hair days.

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  7. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    June 23, 2022 at 6:34 am

    Mrs. Ratliff must be quite the character! 😁🤣😀

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  8. Ally Bean says:
    June 23, 2022 at 11:54 am

    Cute, cute. I wonder what Mrs. Ratliff has to say about these?

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 23, 2022 at 9:18 pm

      Glad you liked them Ally. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Mrs. Ratliff saw the finished product. Maybe she won’t be handing out sidewalk chalk at the 2023 end-of-the-year party? 🙂

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  9. Barbara Rodgers says:
    June 23, 2022 at 4:29 pm

    So sweet! I hope Mrs. Ratliff took some pictures of these as keepsakes. 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 23, 2022 at 9:19 pm

      Barbara – I would have liked to see her face when she saw them and also the drawing with her name – though I wondered if she drew that part because the printing was so perfect?

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      • Barbara Rodgers says:
        June 24, 2022 at 8:38 am

        Interesting how the writer of her name used a mix of upper case and lower case letters. And some of the upper case letters were shorter than the lower case “f”s. 🙂 Very unique.

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        June 24, 2022 at 9:07 pm

        I wonder sometimes if kids today learn how to do lettering different than when we were in school. We only learned how to print, but I think I read or heard that kids no longer are learning cursive, so maybe they learn to print like a person who takes art classes/lettering?

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      • Barbara Rodgers says:
        June 25, 2022 at 7:14 am

        I wrote a letter by hand a couple of months ago. It felt so strange writing in cursive after so many years of not doing so!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        June 25, 2022 at 7:32 pm

        After my mom passed away I sent her friends, none of whom had computers, a short letter tucked into their Christmas card every year. What began in 2010 as a letter, through the years became a short note written right on the card – now they are all gone, so no more letters.

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  11. trumstravels says:
    June 24, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    Nice work! I bet they had a ton of fun 🙂

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  12. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    June 27, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    I sure hope Mrs. Ratliff has a sense of humor (as any teacher of young kids should have.. and any teacher with “rat” as part of their name has to have 🙂 ).

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 27, 2022 at 10:25 pm

      I hope so too Janis – you really have to have a heart of gold and a forgiving nature to be an elementary school teacher, (especially if you have “rat” in your last name, something I never noticed).

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  13. Prior... says:
    July 3, 2022 at 10:55 am

    This was a fun post

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