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 ...

Pros: It was fast and I love the auto shut off when the pencil was sharp
Cons: After only one school year it is not sharpening.

I loved it the first year (10 school months), then it took five minutes to partly sharpen one pencil. I teach second grade, and would not let my students use it because they put in the metal eraser end, etc. and I wanted this sharpener to last a long time. It cost me over $60 from an office supple store. When it stopped sharpening I was very disapointed.