After Idaho’s first-aid ban in July, a common item found in classrooms has also been deemed too dangerous and outlawed.
“Pencils might as well be a weapon,” claimed Caren Smith, who is now head of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) at George Washington Elementary School in Lewiston.
“I don’t consent to anyone handing one to my innocent, pure child. It’s no different than giving them bandaids,” Smith said.
She has since pulled her son from George Washington Elementary to transition him to “unschooling,” a viral TikTok education trend. Unschooling involves parents getting their children to forget the things they learned in the classroom, like math, to instead learn things on their own, like how to milk cows and churn butter.
“He doesn’t need weapons like pencils to grow as a person,” Smith said. “We live in a sick world, handing these sharp ‘writing utensils’ to small hands.”
She refused to comment further.
Without pencils in school, Idaho children will now use torn-out magazine letters and glue for their schoolwork.
The idea of a pencil ban surfaced after Glenda Malpractice, a former nurse at Lewiston High School, was sentenced to life in prison. This happened after the first-aid ban when she gave a sophomore student an ice pack. Nurse Malpractice broke out of prison and sought revenge. She reportedly stole the sophomore’s pencil while he was writing and scratched him with it. He contracted lead poisoning from the incident.
The hospitals were closed in September due to the first-aid ban. So there was no way to save him. Since the accident, his brain has reverted to a second-grade reading level, where he will remain for the rest of his life while also being paralyzed from the waist down. Malpractice is now serving life in solitary confinement.
The PTA organized another riot at George Washington Elementary, where the parents stood in the lobby and burned every single pencil while chanting “for the children.” The teachers raided the students’ desks, leaving the supply closets barren. The teachers reportedly hid under their desks, trembling in horror as the feral mothers dug through every drawer, snatching up every pencil in sight.
“It might be a cult, actually,” reported Vice Principal Joe Mamma, “but at least the children are safe.”
