Thumb tacks

I don't know if it's true at your school, but I find that I cannot use thumbtacks. I have now taught for several years in multiple schools and, whether it is a middle school or a high school, if I put papers up using thumbtacks, the kids take them down and throw them at each other. So I end up stapling the papers to the bulletin board.

I wonder why this is.

I also had a problem with the middle schoolers breaking pencils to throw at each other but hadn't had a problems with the students in high school until this year.

It reminds me of visiting the zoo, where certain animals throw the only things they can, but I refrain from mentioning this to my students.