Happy Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with you!
We are doing some standardized testing at school this week. That means I need to have lots of sharpened pencils. I’ve been using the electric pencil sharpener I got in the fall. I was frustrated because the pencil tips kept breaking just as they got a nice point on them. I figured it must be the pencils, because they are not Ticonderoga. (I’m a big fan of Ticonderoga brand pencils.)
See the little broken leads littering the table top?
But then I got to wondering: could it be the sharpener that was the problem? I went to India’s room to use her sharpener. The pencils sharpened to a nice point with no breaking. Dang. My sharpener is bad. Now I have to decide… Do I suffer through the rest of the year with a bad sharpener, or do I wait until next year to address this problem?
… and altho with you!
Well, dang it. I’d say suffer through it and borrow the other sharpener, but then again, I don’t know. The only sure thing is that Ticonderoga is one of the best words in the English language to say out loud. Our Sam’s Club is on Ticonderoga.
Ticonderoga
You should add whittlin’ to your life skills class. Kill two birds with one stone and all that.
Ticonderoga Ticonderoga Ticonderoga. Good therapy.
Dull pencils are no fun. I’d say to wait until next year, but how much useless sharpening can you endure?
Make sure there are no points stuck in the sharpener. Testing week….yeah!
If you have lots of percussionists in your room, don’t discount the possibility that their pencil graphite has been broken as they drum on their desks, etc. Regardless…what everyone else said: Ticonderoga.