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DENVER—After a minutes-long stand-off Thursday morning, a rebellious kindergartener made good on his threats to place class project Flat Stanley into a paper shredder. Other members in the class at Truman Elementary School and teacher Sarah McNally pleaded with the young boy to think about all the places Flat Stanley would not live to see if he went through with his actions. Nevertheless, the six-year-old, whose name was not released, hit the shred button and Flat Stanley did not survive. The class was hopeful Stanley would pull through the catastrophe, as he had survived being flattened by a bulletin board in the past, but it was not to be. The incident was apparently sparked by another student using a blue marker that the assailant had wanted to use. The school and community are left to wonder how things may have been different if there had been multiple blue markers.