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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't think of anything.  I order our school supplies through the PTA.  It's amazing!

What is ridiculous about a pencil sharpener and some play doh?[/quote]

Why can't the classroom have a pencil sharpener that the whole class uses? That worked for my kindergarten class in 1990; it should work now. [/quote]

You have no idea what actually went on in that class when you were a student.  [/quote]

+1. The pencil sharpener is the proverbial water cooler of elementary classrooms. Plus the electric ones break really quickly after only a bit of misuse. They cost about $35 through the MCPS warehouse. I have $200 of school money to spend on supplies for my classroom for the entire year. I need my pencil sharpener to last for at least 2 years. Individual pencil sharpeners, plus keeping the class sharpener behind my desk, help ensure that can happen. [/quote]

Who said anything about an electric sharpener? How freaking lazy do you want kids to be that they can't hand crank a pencil sharpener nailed to the wall for DECADES? Those things are workhorses, and last forever.[/quote]

I went through three of those "work horses" in my 8th grade class this year. Maybe they aren't made like they used to, maybe my students were exceedingly rough, or...? Anyway, the kids couldn't use it when it worked anyway. I'd give them a brand new pencil and it would be a nub. These were good kids who just couldn't figure it out.

I bought a zillion of the little sharpeners for the kids to use instead. Sanity, restored.

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