why is the cornerstone of primary education an underachiever? while buying school supplies yesterday i noticed something that has been bothering me for years, the #2 pencil. kids all over this country for as long as i can remember are creating and writing with an instrument that defines mediocrity. i looked for a #1 pencil and even a #3 pencil and could not find it. even though it's a requirement has anybody ever been reprimanded for sporting the #12. why only pencils? should there be a #25 notebook paper? the #76 colored marker or how about the "H" class glue stick. i personally think we should write our congressmen and get this thing straightened out, how can we expect our kids to be the best, when they constantly stare at the equivalent to the silver medal all day long? education reform my a$$, pencil reform, that's the cause that we should trumpet. "We are smart, we aren't dumb, we wanna write with the number one!" write it down, chant it, remember it, our kids are depending on us. oh say can you see...
what about our American pencils patriotic-ness? USA No. 2... what's that all about.... please see my sig....
No wonder I've been losing so many pencil fights. I retired and moved into the world of comb fighting where I had better chance of winning.
way back in 4th grade i unknowingly had a #3 pencil and used it on the 5th grade Texas standardized test. i can't remember the acronym for it or if they even use it anymore... i know its not the TASP (now known as TAAS). but anyways, i was forced to rebubble my answers in a few weeks later when the scanning machine apparently couldn't read my test. but i got the last laugh b/c i ended up acing the thing!
consider yaself lucky you did not end up on the short bus Rocket River those test are intellectually biased
If you are talking about the old,wooden no.2 pencil, you don't have to use just that. There are more "modern" ones. I like using the click pencils. You know, the ones where you click the eraser, and more lead comes out. There are other kinds too. I believe some have replaceable erasers also. I've been using them for years, on TAAS, so they are legal. They say no.2 also. I don't think I've ever seen a non-no. 2 pencil.
no, no, no... it just HIT ME!!! it was called SRA! that was bugging me ever since I posted and i just remembered! but TEAMS sounds familiar... is that what TAAS used to be called (not TASP as I posted)
Its the TAKS test now. how awesome. I remember one time on the TAAS test way back in 4th grade on the science portion of the test I had to make a boat out of aluminum foil and try to put as many pennies on it as possible.
