Ode to the Pencil Case

Ohhhh pencil case, why must you be so fancy and attractive???

You have become so elaborate over time and are now complete with drawers, compartments, and even games. You have such great abilities and students are able to organize and store their most prized pencils with you ….

However, while you serve a purpose by holding the pencils neatly in a row, you drive all of us teachers F#&*ING crazy!!!! Each day you distract the students and sometimes you fall to the ground and need to be fixed. You take a beating and it’s painful for us teachers to watch. Your fanciness is a teacher’s tragedy ….

We cannot educate the youth of Korea and we end up taking you away and making young children cry. Please… please… re-consider your style over your purpose and go back to when life was simple.
Also, tell your pencil friends to become friends with the eraser and join together as one. Because they are separate, it makes the children use the eraser as a throwing device… hostage from another student… or they do not take good care of it and lose it.

I am not sure why the eraser takes the abuse but the truth is… it does. By joining together, the poor child who does not have an eraser doesn’t have to go around to each student asking for one when they make a mistake and the teachers will be happy because they can continue on with a lesson without distraction.

These simple things will make teachers less pissed off during the day and will reduce their discipline actions to a minimum… thus everyone is happy!!!!

Thanks for your consideration,
Meghan Teacher

(No Pencil Cases = Happy 6 and 7 year olds... and their teachers)

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