Head teachers threaten to report parents to the police if they let their kids play CoD - Polidicks

I was five or six when I played my first M rated game. The Shareware version of Doom. I also played Body Harvest religiously. In fact, I played my first T rated game sometime after my first M. Parents didn't mind because they knew it wasn't going to turn me into a killer. One parent was a gamer, the other wasn't an idiot.

I hate these arguments. Let the parents decide, nor the teachers. And the age ratings are just that. The only restriction it with the retailer yet some follow the ratings religiously. My sister wouldn't play just dance until she was 10. Rediculous

While I understand the sentiment of not wanting little kids to play M rated games, but reporting the parents to the police and social services just seems silly. The teacher would probably get hit with a fine for wasting the local law enforcements valuable time with this nonsense.

I assume the police will simply ignore these people like the idiot busybodies they are.

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Anyway if the head teacher wants to do this, he may as try to stop kids from watching violent movies and TV. :v:

[QUOTE=LtKyle2;47418293]Anyway if the head teacher wants to do this, he may as try to stop kids from watching violent movies and TV. :v:[/QUOTE] and playing violent games like nerf, paintball, and airsoft

[QUOTE=J!NX;47418305]and playing violent games like nerf, paintball, and airsoft[/QUOTE] He should stop them from ever learning hobbies like working with cars because they can be used to run over people.

[QUOTE=LtKyle2;47418350]He should stop them from ever learning hobbies like working with cars because they can be used to run over people.[/QUOTE] Many Guitar players do drugs, we should ban guitars as well, and rock music, which is the [U]DEVILS[/U] music

IRRC, there is a correlation between exposure to sexual content and how early one begins sexual interactions, but that's as far as that goes. There's no correlation between violent content and violent interactions, because people are taught right from the get-go that violence is wrong, and why it's wrong. I've been playing GTA3 and watching my sister play Resident Evil and Silent Hill since I was about 7. And I'm pretty sure I'm no more violent because of it.

Meanwhile, I get to play Quake 3 Arena with my computer studies teacher every day at the end of classes. This mentality is ludicrous.

Sounds like my dean at the highschool I go to. She absolutely loves powertripping(Me specifically) and even gave me out of school suspension simply because I like guns and warfare, while a kid who threatened bodily harm got in school suspension.

I hate this, a teachers job is to teach kids life skills. Not to snoop around in their personal lives and try and tell the parents how to raise them.

Reading stories like these make me glad my parents aren't pussies. They let me play GTA since I was 12. I mean shit, they were letting me see rated R movies at about 5. I might be a tad asocial but other than that I'm a perfectly well meaning person. Learn the difference between reality and fiction at a young age. Worse that might happen with a kid playing CoD is they develop a sailor's vocabulary.

To all the people who think the teacher has a point because the youngest kids are impressionable, you do realize that multiple studies show video games don't cause children to become more violent? The only exceptions are mentally ill people who would probably go crazy over anything. Hell I played violent video games since I was about 8 and I'm a pacifist.

Shit, our teachers would let us play Counter Strike 1.6 when there was ever time or it was a boring day.

I have been playing the most violent games since forever, since postal 2 and gta SA and i actually want to play hatred when it comes out. However i cant even run over a lizard on my bike, i ride in the street so i dont run them over.

[quote]The heads said the games could increase "early sexualised behaviours" and the advice was in line with local authority policy and concerns.[/quote] Maybe they are right, a lot of these kids seem to have slept with my mother.

Most kids just wanna play Cod and GTA cause they're the coolest games on market. Heck, most adults want to play those games as well and kids gravitate to being able to do all the cool shit adults supposedly can do. These games aren't really a problem for kids as long as the kid can make the distinction between reality and game.

Heck one of the first movies I ever remember watching before I was even school-aged was The Terminator. I haven't gone all "kill all humans." [sp]Yet[/sp]

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;47418637]Reading stories like these make me glad my parents aren't pussies. They let me play GTA since I was 12. I mean shit, they were letting me see rated R movies at about 5. I might be a tad asocial but other than that I'm a perfectly well meaning person. Learn the difference between reality and fiction at a young age. Worse that might happen with a kid playing CoD is they develop a sailor's vocabulary.[/QUOTE] Same here, hell my dad got me into gaming with games like Doom, Duke 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, and so on.

I don't really like the idea of children under 12 playing M rated games but I think this is going a bit too far

Would the teachers even have a legal foot to stand on if a parent was reported? It seems like a power trip.

[QUOTE=Mabus;47416955]Oh man this brings back memories, I remember the mass hysteria that went around when GTA III first came out, one of our teachers spent 20 minutes bitching about it. What was ironic was that the place that I grew up in turned more people violent and sectarian than any video-game ever could. The school had a policy of "pretending nothing was wrong" too, even when the windows of the prefabs were smashed in every week and graffiti was everywhere.[/QUOTE] I remember when my math teacher overheard us talking about the cheat code to spawn a tank and immediately became interested in the game

[QUOTE=Superwafflez;47417063]Primary schools here cater for people under like 11.... they probably shouldn't be playing GTA at an age which is pretty darn impressionable.[/QUOTE] 11 years old I was playing every game I could get my hands on and GTA:SA was one of those games. Even at 11 I could see the game as something so disconnected from reality it would never relate to real violence.

After age 5 most people have developed reasoning which allows them to differentiate between fantasy and reality.

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[QUOTE=Ripmax;47416924][url]https://uk.news.yahoo.com/parents-reported-over-games-073108535.html#Vod7W5N[/url][/QUOTE] Cool, bring it on

[QUOTE=proch;47417369]I know plenty of people who have played GTA since their earliest days and none of them shot up a school They could murder people relentlessly in a video game but if someone even accidentally stepped on a kitties foot they'd be startled[/QUOTE] I remember going on hours long killing sprees in GTA Vice City and i was like 7~8 :v: I didn't know how to play the game properly when it came out so i would rely solely on killing pedestrians and gather their change to buy the properties. Oh god, 12 years later i still hear the minigun sound and screams inside my head. [sp] not really [/sp]

i have no problem with kids playing these games, just dont give them mic headsets im sick of bloody little kids yelling in my ear when playing