X-Acto : School Pro Electric Pencil Sharpener

Pros: Automatic shut off, won’t work without the plastic sleeve, sharpens three pencil sizes.
Cons: None!

Even though my kids use au tomatic pencils most of the time, they do go through their fair share of standard wooden pencils. When they were younger I had a wall mounted one that served our needs nicely but as they ...

Pros: works quickly, stops sharpening automatically, fits any size pencil
Cons: more expensive than other sharpeners

I teach kindergarten and first grade and boy, do we go through a lot of pencils! Last year I finally gave up on my trusty wall-mounted, manual sharpener because the kids kept knocking the shavings out all over the floor. I decided to go for an electric ...