Chalkboard glitches

I was setting up a new world today Nov 13, 2023, in the newest update 1.20.13
When I went to place the first chalkboard (I expected to have it facing me but it wound up placing it at a 90 degree angle to me.  Seems the chalkboards now only face in one direction and the only way to force them to face another way is to place them on the side of a block.  This means that if you want standing chalkboards with legs, they can only face in that one direction.  If you place them on a block to get them to face in a particular direction and then break the block you have a board that is floating with no legs.

I also found that if I typed text into the chalkboard and picked it up with the data (control center click) to try to place it in another location without having to retype the data or copy and paste, it didn't work.
It placed a blank chalkboard (at least visibly it was blank) but I think it glitched out the game pretty bad since I had to delete the extra boards several times and restart the game several times before the extra boards actually stayed gone.