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breaking pencils - hypnotic?

From: MPBC90
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 21:07:05 PDT

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    >>When I catch students doing this, I make them go back to their regular
    class
    and bring me replacement pencils. One time, a students only extra pencil was
    the birthday pencil she got from the school that day. That was hard, but the
    problem has stopped. Janet (I teach elementary k-5)<<

    I noticed this "pencil breaking phenomenon" for the first time this year. It
    was May, and most pencils were nubs...in the Art Room and classroom. I got
    out a bunch of brand new ones and sharpened them up and thought it would be
    kindof refreshing for the students! It was. But I stared as a third grade
    girls sat and broke one after another after another, almost in a trance, and
    had to put my hand on her arm to stop her! I asked her "Why in the world
    would you do something like that?" but she had no reply! The next time she
    came to Art, I gave her the broken pieces. Strange.
    mp 

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