I just thought that maybe this Cul de Sac strip involving a pencil sharpener might make jsgoddess laugh (and the rest of y’all, too, I hope).
Now I feel like that cartoonist knew me in my childhood.
I can’t tie my shoes.
I tie them but not with that bow that tucks itself. I buy Skechers with the elastic instead of laces and my sandls have velcro because i never got the knack of that one knot.
[Should have read further down]
Not sure if you want advice how to use a pencil sharpener or not, but the key is always pressure. Each pencil sharpener has an ideal pressure that the pencil should be pressed into the hole. The manual ones usually need more pressure than the mechanical or electric, but the manual or electric need a firmer grip. Also, angle is important. Some people bend the pencil while turning.
In addition, for the little hand-held pencil sharpeners: Don’t hold the pencil sharpener static in one hand while you twist the pencil in the other. Twist both hands, as if you are wringing out a washcloth.
I believe the “no mechanical pencils” thing on standardized tests to be BS. I’ve been teaching HS for 26 years and have never had problems with mechanical pencils and Scan-Trons. I have also never heard of any state-graded (EOCT, CRCT) tests not grading correctly because of them.
Why can’t you use mechanical?
The instructions for at least some standardized tests prohibit them (or at least tell you not to use them); see Post #11 for why.
Per collegeboard.com (the fine folks behind the SATs and a few others):
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](College Board Will No Longer Offer SAT Subject Tests or SAT with Essay – College Board Blog)
My conspiratorial .02:
I think it’s to avoid hyper-clicking sprouting up in test rooms as leads need changing. A room of fifty people focused on their test, and every five to ten minutes there’s a click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click coming from somewhere. Keeps the distractions down.
You’ll poke your eye out.