[QUOTE=WhyNott;43690195]guys guy
mabe this could work on facepunch too[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Kazumi;43689890]Tamagotchi was pretty damn massive when I was a kid. Didn't really see a lot of beyblade.[/QUOTE]
I remember Tamagotchis and the Digimon version of them (that you could connect to each other and do battle). In fact I still have one somewhere. My school was mostly into pogs (I wonder when these will make their comeback? They always do) and marbles. I won somewhere around 800 pogs off of other kids hahaha. Pokemon (Blue and Red) came out around grade 6 for me, so I was about 11-12 years old.
I think pokemon blurring the lines between a child's game and real rpgs had some really interesting effects on my high school: people started deriding it as childish only to learn college students were playing it too. Then people started to do other odd things normally considered childish, and people just stopped giving a shit. I saw lots of other things too, like how in grade 2 almost half my class didn't have a computer, but by grade 6 almost every kid was on MSN chat every night; now I don't know anyone who still uses it. Everyone moved on to Facebook but it's starting to look like that's on its way out too. Growing up alongside the internet has been quite interesting. I remember writing essays in high school and even early college for teachers who would not take any internet sources whatsoever. Technology has changed and education hasn't even attempted to keep up. Scary thought.
I used to get bullied a little bit in Junior School. People would steal my lunch food because I had a massive lunchbox every day. Eventually I had to have my lunch locked inside the teachers office because it got so bad. I always gave food to people who asked politely though, because it seemed like I was the only rich kid in the school and the other kids were living on rations.
[QUOTE=WhyNott;43690195]guys guy
mabe this could work on facepunch too
[editline]27th January 2014[/editline]
guys guys
mabe this could work on facepunch too[/QUOTE]
go read the rust forum and think about what you just said
My last year in elementary school, around 2003, my school built a brand new playground, and subsequently banned every single form of 'rough' play. Such as tag, touch football('murican football), running, throwing ANYTHING etc.
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;43690027]Beyblade was huge at my school but we only ever bought the shit knock-offs from the dollar stores so we went through like seven a week[/QUOTE]
Everyone at my school bought giant metal blades for their beyblades and everyone who didn't have those got their beyblades destroyed
[QUOTE=Glitchman;43689267]I wasn't allowed to go to recess because I got bullied a lot, so I got to play with legos and star wars toys inside!
I don't remember there being many rules at recess besides no throwing rocks and carrying sticks and stuff.[/QUOTE]
gimme ur fuckin lego kid or im gonna smack u
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBo5cxkptXM[/media]
recess was the shit
[QUOTE=usaokay;43689565]King Freddy.
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I watch too much of this show.[/QUOTE]
King Freddy II as I recall.
May he boss all the kids around with fairness.
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;43690316]I remember Tamagotchis and the Digimon version of them (that you could connect to each other and do battle). In fact I still have one somewhere. My school was mostly into pogs (I wonder when these will make their comeback? They always do) and marbles. I won somewhere around 800 pogs off of other kids hahaha. Pokemon (Blue and Red) came out around grade 6 for me, so I was about 11-12 years old.
I think pokemon blurring the lines between a child's game and real rpgs had some really interesting effects on my high school: people started deriding it as childish only to learn college students were playing it too. Then people started to do other odd things normally considered childish, and people just stopped giving a shit. I saw lots of other things too, like how in grade 2 almost half my class didn't have a computer, but by grade 6 almost every kid was on MSN chat every night; now I don't know anyone who still uses it. Everyone moved on to Facebook but it's starting to look like that's on its way out too. Growing up alongside the internet has been quite interesting. I remember writing essays in high school and even early college for teachers who would not take any internet sources whatsoever. Technology has changed and education hasn't even attempted to keep up. Scary thought.[/QUOTE]
Completely forgot about the Pokemon fad, the cards especially. That hit real hard for us when we were in the 6th grade. I was one of the lucky ones to have a bunch of cards through money I had saved. I would sell my extra cards to other kids whose parents wouldn't let them buy cards. I remember I used to use one of those magazines that had prices listed for individual cards, and that was the prices I would sell the cards to other kids. They were usually outrageous prices, like $2.50 for a stupid common card you would get in every pack. One day I came home with an excess of $250, and my mom had a shit-fit. It took a good 30 minutes to explain to her I didn't do anything wrong, or steal anything. lol. A couple of days after that, the school found out what was going on, and they banned the cards.
such is life in the (recess) zone
good thing all that outdoor fun was was replaced with yugioh cards at lunch
I have like a billion of those old cards
When I was in grade school, they let us bring our toy lighsabers out recess. 30-40 kids all beating the shit out of each other with lightsabers, it was glorious.
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;43691682]They let us bring our toy lighsabers out recess. 30-40 kids all beating the shit out of each other with lightsabers, it was glorious.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter how much fun you think you are having, but you are never having as much fun as someone in a lightsaber fight.
[editline]27th January 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Glitchman;43691676]such is life in the (recess) zone
good thing all that outdoor fun was was replaced with yugioh cards at lunch
I have like a billion of those old cards[/QUOTE]
Pokemon cards faded out after a year or so, and then in came the Digimon cards. After those, YuGiOh cards were big for us in the 9th and 10th grade, followed by Yu Yu Hakusho and MTG cards in 10th and 11th grade. I stopped with the cards near the end of the 11th grade though. Some douche thought I had stolen all of his MTG cards (I had not), and after being accused of it, all of mine were stolen a week later. After that I just decided it wasn't worth it anymore, and I stuck with video games from that point on.
Holy shit man i remember this kind of thing, We had everything, Pokemon cards, Yu-ghi_oh cards..
A friend of my gran found me a really rare Card from Hong Kong (Five headed god dragon or some shit) It was awesome but the other kids claimed it was fake :c
Also
Mother. Fuckin'. BEYBLADES! those things were rad. two kids were having a duel with them when one of them flew out of the arena and the teachers said they were dangerous and banned them. it was fun while it lasted i guess.
[QUOTE=Shriker;43693101]When I was in elementary school many things like beyblades were banned. Also the Heelys shoe, if anyone remembers that, was heavily frowned upon by the school and banned as well.[/QUOTE]
Oh god those Heelys, you weren't cool if you didn't have a pair in my school. We used to have races and shit, and the teachers allowed us to skate to the next class. Of course some ass kid whose parents didnt get them any got hurt by a kid running into him. His mom complained and threatened to sue and the next day they were banned.
eh i would say bullying won't really dissappear, cas i remember my school and not only was it chaos they mixed 3-4 grades togather on one empty parkinglot. man i loved it when this group of 2nd graders tried pushing around me and my friends (who were 4th graders at the time) generally they got the shit kicked out of them before they would come back the next day.
also this was the heyday of gameboys but for some reason those were banned durring school hours (i can't really understand why) so we had to do pokemon after school
Let me make an obligatory statement:
proof anarchy works
fuck the system man no laws no rules
in the new state there will be no rules on the playground comrade
[QUOTE=KorJax;43689461]The school district I live in now does this at a high school level, its incredibly stupid.
If anyone ever gets in any kind of fight, both people involved get expelled. Which mean bullying is more likely to happen, because the bullied person is less likely to want to fight back. A fight might never break out due to the bullied not wanting to get expelled, but the problem just gets worse and worse and worse because of this.
Thankfully I only went to that school for a single college-prep class so I didn't really get too involved with it.[/QUOTE]
It's morbid to think about it, but I was in school when Columbine happened, and I was "the quiet kid", so I didn't get bullied much throughout the rest of my school years.
Before the libertarians get boners about kids proving that anarchy is viable, it's not like the kids are completely unsupervised. They're still, you know, in school. If a few kids grab another kid and start beating the shit out of him, they'll find out exactly where that "no rules" policy stops. Get real.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;43694862]Before the libertarians get boners about kids proving that anarchy is viable, it's not like the kids are completely unsupervised. They're still, you know, in school. If a few kids grab another kid and start beating the shit out of him, they'll find out exactly where that "no rules" policy stops. Get real.[/QUOTE]
I don't see anyone saying this in the thread.
You're sorta like insulting someone who doesn't exist.
now that i think about it my elementary school didn't have rules during recess either.
i mean they had common sense rules such as don't throw rocks or walk far away from the playground but either than that, no rules
A friend of mine who lived in Rotorua said his school had boxing gloves and you were allowed to fight each other and sort out your problems as long as you were both wearing them.
The elementary school I was going to tried to do this once but idiot kids started climbing some fence and fucking around on top of it until someone fell down and tore apart their skull so they had to put strict rules again.
There was also this one time a kid was stuck in a classroom, he panicked and jumped off a window. From the first floor.
Don't they know the proper way to get a child to learn is to strap his head down and wire his eyes open while you give him a 10 hour 'video lecture'. It's just basic child psychology really.
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