The summer is wrapping up and the school year is about
ready to kick off in full force. This is
the time of the year that is filled with optimism and excitement. Everything
starts over. Students get to meet new
teachers, teachers get a new batch of students and parents get a chance to
regain their sanity.
Despite all these warm and cuddly feelings that surround
the start of school I am dreading another yearly tradition: parents buying
their kids crappy pencils.
Don’t get me wrong, I to have been seduced by the allure
of the 1 cent pack of pencils at Staples (or Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc.). As a
parent you feel good about making such a wise purchase. After all a pencil is
just a pencil.
“No so fast my friend,” to quote Lee Corso, the legendary
football analyst from College Game Day (and Director of Business Development
for Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company). Pencils
are NOT all the same and it DOES make a difference.
