A British design company have launched a new product to help children concentrate at school – pre-chewed pencils. The company, called Concentrate, says the pencils look like they have already been chewed making pupils less likely to put them in their mouths.
And they say this is a cheap but effective way of encouraging youngsters to get their teeth into their lessons instead.
Concentrate specialises in products to help kids at school and identify why they get distracted or are unable to focus in class, claim the chewed end encourages them to get thinking straight away.
“We know it’s daft but just get down to some concentrated thinking and who knows what might happen,” said company boss Mark Champkins.
“We began to look at the reasons that children might be distracted, uncomfortable or unable to focus in lessons – and we set about designing some simple, cost-effective products to address some of the problems.”
Uh-huh….how DID we ever get through school?
My favorite pencil offering of all time was by the school district that gave all the elementary kids pencils that had “Don’t Do Drugs” printed on the barrel. Of course, after a little sharpening the pencil soon read “Do Drugs”!
Exactly! How did we ever make it though school… We didn’t wear helmets when we rode our bikes. Had to deal with bullies in Gym class. Had to deal with REAL grades that were take home, signed and returned.
Ick. I wouldn’t be able to concentrate at all if I had a pencil that was defiled by teeth marks. I had to have two matching number 2 pencils that were sharpened to the same length.
Pre-chewed pencils won’t solve the issue. Kids like me back then will only chew and chew until there is no pencil left! Happily, it’s a very bad habit I’m very happy to have broken 😀
So who do they get to pre-chew them?
#5… I was thinking the same thing! I picture some factory in Bangladesh full of illiterate, underpaid, workers picking up pencils all day and chewing on them. Talk about the perfect “work at home” business.
Are they sanitized after being pre-chewed?
#5. Dogs, they use dogs.
They oughta do what they did when I was a kid, paint the pencils with a special nicotene enriched paint. That’ll keep ’em alert.
Nigerians with 35 million to share have very sharp teeth.
absurd.
-this is what happens when hyper-consumer marketing “think tanks” run out of ideas..
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Let’s just give them those real fat pencils that are flat on one side.