Well as a former teacher you should also know that a sharpened pencil and scissors are equally harmful and can poke into eyes, nose and mouth besides body. I myself is a victim of that--so should my friend be sent to jail for this accidental mistake or eliminate pencils? Dear teacher try to make kids smarter in studies like chinese, japanese or indian kids rather than putting insane ideas into new developing brains. Its like saying oh baby don't learn to walk coz you will fall down. Get real--nothing happened, the kid has no intentions and he is still 6--suspending him is not going to help him. All he need is a good talk and explaination