[ SECRET POST #2133 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2133 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Out of curiosity, would you say the same about a child bringing, say, a bible to school to show people?

I mean, it's one thing if the students are disrupting class time to talk about it, but if it's during lunch or something I see nothing wrong with it any more than I see something wrong with bringing Pokemon cards to school or something.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

sure, especially if it was a nonreligious school. I see where you were trying to go with that, anon, but I think you're misunderstanding me-- I don't think kids should bring ANYTHING from home to school. Pokemon cards and the like should be left at home too, but especially something that has any type of religious or occult significance, because someone somewhere is going to end up getting offended by it. And anyway, schools aren't a place for that kind of thing.

That may sound harsh, but I'm speaking as a teacher: it's hard enough to get anyone to pay attention as it is. If they're carrying around all that extra crap it's even worse.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, then fair enough. I still mostly disagree with you, but as long as you're being harsh all around :)

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think kids should bring ANYTHING from home to school.

Not even a book to read at lunch?

It sounds like you're the kind of teacher that kids will grow up remembering as a dick.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't have gotten through school if I hadn't been allowed to bring books from home. Of course, I went to pretty shitty schools and hated most of my classmates because they were preppy, perfect douchebags.

[(Anonymous)]

(The anon who brought tarot cards)

That was basically my take on it. How was it different from Pokemon cards? Or the stories about nice little witches we read and listened to on cassette tapes? But I can also see how tarot cards might scare someone.

On a side-note, I went to a Catholic school, but where I live, Catholic schools aren't all that strict about religion.

[miffthefox]

Most schools I know of banned Pokemon (and other CCG) cards because the kids would always be ripping each other off in trades and stealing from one another. I remember my old school banned playing cards (and eventually all card games) over gambling concerns.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Well, they weren't actually banned, but our teacher forbade us to bring them. Until we wrote a really nice letter, signed by the entire class, that we'll behave, but please please please let us bring our Pokemon cards again.

Then, in secondary school, nobody really gave a crap anymore. (And I mean both the teachers and all the former Pokemon fans. Such a bummer. 10 year old me returns from the summer vacation, and suddenly absolutely nobody even talked about Pokemon anymore. It was really weird.)

[(Anonymous)]

My district banned trading cards during the Pokemon card heyday partially because some kids were stealing them, but mostly because kids kept getting them out during class and it was a disruption.
Then I got to high school, and they were still banned, but nobody cared. I kept my Yugioh deck in my backpack and played with some of my friends at lunch, and we never got in trouble for it.

[rosehiptea]

When I was in grade school in the 70s they banned baseball cards. Also due to gambling concerns, as far as I know.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Sort of off-topic, but this reminds me of when I was in the 6th grade and I brought Magic: the Gathering cards to school and was trying to teach other kids the game so I'd have someone to play with. My teacher freaked out at first because she thought they were tarot cards, then when I explained it was a card game, she was like, "phew, okay". I always thought in the back of my mind "is there really much of a difference there?" but I let it go