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re: Pencil Stabbings in Schools-How Common
Posted on 8/18/26 at 8:48 pm to HenryParsons
Posted on 8/18/26 at 8:48 pm to HenryParsons
Glad I’m not the only one. Mine’s still there 25+ years later!
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Posted on 8/18/26 at 8:56 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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There’s the urban legend that scared the shite out of us back in the day.
For us kids in the 70's, the fear from pencils was lead poisoning.
I looked it up. At my school, lead poisoning was tied with quicksand and running with scissors as the leading cause of death/injury, each with a total of....zero
Posted on 8/18/26 at 9:01 pm to ItzMe1972
Anyone remember doing the eraser burn challenge?
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:33 am to ItzMe1972
Crazy... but my very first day in school, 1980, being escorted to my first day of kindergarten by my mom at a K-6th grade public school in the Philadelphia area... all of the sudden this older boy came running down the stairs and through the hallway where we were, screaming and crying... He had a pencil sticking out of his hand. He had been stabbed with it.
That was scary AF for a bunch of little kindergartners on their very first day.
That was scary AF for a bunch of little kindergartners on their very first day.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:36 am to sjmabry
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In March 2026 @ Kirby Middle in San Antonio area.
Mexican kid stabbed his amigo in the knee with a pencil.
Kid then stabbed teacher who attempted to stop the incident from getting too out of hand.
Mexicans love them some stabbin'.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to ItzMe1972
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Anyone have any stories?
Yes. I was in 5th grade at Robert Fulton Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1970.
A kid sitting next to me in homeroom decided to start using a pencil to punch holes in the plastic bag thing that I kept all my pencils and crayons in.
I slammed my left hand down on the table and yelled "stop!" He stabbed me in the fleshy area between the two middle fingers on my left hand.
I had to get a tetanus shot. The pencil mark under my skin is still visible 56 years later.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:44 am to BhamBlazeDog
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Glad I’m not the only one. Mine’s still there 25+ years later!
56 for mine.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:53 am to ItzMe1972
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Anyone have any stories?
Yes.
Maybe 4th or 5th grade at St. Clement of Rome. Names will be changed to protect those involved - let's call the two parties Jack & Jill.
I was sitting right behind Jack and Jill was right in front of Jack.
Jack kept touching Jill's hair. She repeatedly told him to stop. He laughed, but did not stop.
The last time he did it, she turned and stabbed him in the shoulder with, what I'm sure was, a Ticonderoga 10.
I was like, "Oh, shite". Jack started crying. Jill turned and sat silently (I'm still scared of Jill to this day).
The teacher freaked out, sent Jack to the nurse, pretty sure Jill got sent home, and I had to answer some questions. I'm no snitch, and Jack wasn't very well liked, so I said I didn't see anything. Besides, I'm not gonna rat out the 5th grade chick who just stabbed a dude.
Jack also pissed his pants one day during class, so it has to be tough being known for two pretty standout things from grade school.
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