Can we stop with the chalkboard paint?

This is the right use of chalkboard paint.

The University of Florida Department of Physics

Here's every other.

And every other.

Fermilab

Ahh, the pursuit of know-how is a extraordinary, beautiful factor. What could quadratic equations or diagrammed sentences be with out a chalkboard?

Chalkboards belong in classrooms or in kids' rooms. They're to accumulate mind, formulate theories, show proofs, remedy equations, doodle and to analyze. They're messy and unsightly, the proper metaphor for the act of learning.

The usual suspects over at You Know Where can't seem to restrain themselves when it comes to chalkboard paint though. Their latest affront is to refer to it as being somehow green.

Ugh. I bet it is further evidence of the absolute financial disaster of the time period "green." Man, that is one unsightly kitchen. Again although, green?

Chalkboard chalk is calcium sulfate, an industrial byproduct. It's the same chemical drywall's made from. I wonder what the reaction from these folks would be to this inconvenient little factoid. Hey Apartment Therapy! By encouraging your readers to paint their cabinet doors with chalkboard paint, you're opening the door to having them sprinkle their kitchen counters with calcium sulfate, AN INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL. Calcium sulfate's benign of course but there's seems to be this idea that chalkboard chalk is some kind of a naturally-occurring mineral. It gets its name from one, but just like the lead in a pencil, things aren't always what they seem.

Aside from that, the usage of chalkboard paint all around the location as seems seems horrible. Sometimes it seems like I'm by myself on this opinion. Look at what wreckage chalkboard paint hath wrought if you may belly it.