Or it could be that they're simply distracting from the ultimate purpose of school... LEARNING.

Aren't most of these items used during Recess?

micro-man:

1. so what, what the school cannot be mac anymore so now they must ban tag?
and 2. what about the mac hippies?

you coulda just re-named it daisyball.. or beautiful-pony-island-ball

My school banned tamogotchi's, giga pets, nano's all those pet taking care thingys.

hehehe the thing is...the game's name...that's what it was slaughter ball. its kinda like dodgeball only a lil more painful lolz

you dont say?

ill have you know, ponies can be pretty brutal.

if you had a tamagotchi, and had it on loud mode, and it would start beeping in the middle of class, the teacher would take it away from you.

I know something banned in everybody's school or mostly eveybody's! GUM............

oh GOD!!!!! how could we forget that?????
omg i NEVER did get caught whenever i'd chew it! except when it was that stupid fat sub!!!!lol

I remember in 3rd grade my teacher allowed us to have a GUM day.

When you get to junior high and high school they really don't care as long as you don't stick the gum to chairs and tables.

I dont know wether this has been posted on here yet or not, but schools have actually started to ban the game of TAG recently. They can take away Pogs, and Pokemon Cards.. but when they try to take away a game that probably dates back to the cavemen.. uhm.. cavechildren.. I start to get a little pissed. but then again, according to what my little brother has sayed, they can get away with brutal childhood bloodsport no matter how huffy the schoolboard hippies get.

From Grades K-6 my school was superbly inconsistant with what they banned. What was banned one week would be alright in a while, only to be banned again. I think it was if it went a week without incident, they'd allow things back. Also, they didn't care what we wore, just so long as our bits and pieces were covered.

Pogs were the item banned the most (also re-instated the most). Tamogachi, Nano pets and the like also suffered the same fate. Gameboys were banned at one point. Also were Game Gears thanks to me being a smartass. "Nowhere in the rules does it say I can't bring my Game Gear, just my game boy. You have no right to take it." Comics suffered a hit in this area as well.

Some of the things that were permanently banned were Pixie stix after some kid snorted one in front of a teacher, saying they were drugs. Slap bracelets were never allowed; they nipped that one in the bud before it grew to be a huge fad. Sports trading cards were not permitted on school grounds, but others were. Ripped clothing was never tolerated. They didn't care when it happened either. You could skin your knee on the playground, if those pants ripped in the knee- you went home.

In Grade 7 calculators were banned for a month after the teachers found out the answer to 6922251*8 spells something when turned upside down. Luckily it was the other half of the semester, and I had done my Math course.

Grade 8 found the Co-Ed naked shirts banned, but not the Big Johnson ones. Also "cloths shall not contain, or hold any reference to weapons, drugs, booze, or religious slogans or slanders" (Yes, the code said cloths, booze and slanders. It was a brand new school)

Grades 9-11 were alright, no weapons, drugs or alcohol. Nobody cared what you wore.
Grade 12 however, they changed the dress code. We all had to write essays on why we should or shouldn't have uniforms. We didn't have to go through the uniforms, but it was no longer permissible to don see-through clothing (apparently it was frowned upon to say "Damn, there goes half my wardrobe!"- I am guilty of this. Like I said, smartass.), strapless, or spaghetti-strap shirts. No bandanas worn on clothing for "gang purposes".