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They banned Mini Boglins.

Yep. And Yugioh. Took a relatively small petition from students to allow us to play in the library during our lunch breaks.

Yep. Kids were playing them in class too much so they got banned. Then when Yugioh became the next big thing a big fight happened at recess because some kid tried to steal another kid's yugioh cards, so those got banned too.

Pokemon cards got banned since too many people were getting into fights over them / stealing them / etc. but then I remember playing MtG in school the very next year, so while I don't remember the specifics I guess it really was just only pokemon cards

It's amazing that even back in the 90s kids were ruffians and needed supervision.

If my elementary school did, I had already graduated

I was a sophore or junior whe Pokmon got big. My only experience with Pokmon cards is when me and my friends stole a bunch from Walmart (didn't secure them at that time) along with Tiki oil. We then burned them in the parking lot.

Im not aware of anything being banned, like that, in any of the 3 schools i went to

...there was the whole unisex bathroom ban but i dont think thats what we are talking about.

They banned every fad

Yes and then Yugioh took over

How do I vote for both of the top two options?

If they did I wasn't aware
Because I never liked playing with cards. They were very popular w/ my age group though. I remember finding a binder full of them (at a park) and I just gave it to one of my friends lol.

Pokemon wouldn't exist for another 5 years 2 months after I left High School.

yall went to some dystopian ass schools

coyot posted...

Some recess or after school monitor confiscated mine, and she never returned it. I was 5 years old. She was like 38. I always presumed her daughters inherited the cards because they were a trashy family.

It didnt make sense. I was playing while waiting to be picked up after school.

A cousin was expelled in middle school for his Pokmon card stealing ring.

I stole an annoying kids pack in 5th grade. Not for money (none were valuable), but out of spite.

Mine got confiscated on the school bus. Some jackass was mad because I wouldn't trade with him and yelled "he has Pokemon cards" so the driver literally stopped the bus and made me go give them to her. She said my parents could go pick them up.

The kid had instant regret. He probably thought I would deny it or try to hide them or rat him out too, or whatever. Kid was an ass hat literally at all times, so it surprised me that he actually seemed to feel bad about it. He kept saying "your parents will go get them."

Thing is, there was no way in hell I was going to tell my parents I owned them at all, let alone took them to school, because that was not JUST engaging in evil science and demon worship, but even worse, breaking the school rules.

Now, my sister was on the bus too, so she jumped on the opportunity to get me in trouble anyway. But I never even brought up the getting them back thing because that would have made things worse, so naturally, I never got them back.

As for what happened to them, I do know one teacher gave confiscated-and-not-reclaimed Pokemon cards away to whoever wanted them on the last day of school. This I know because I was one of the two kids there. The other kid accepted them.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Thing is, there was no way in hell I was going to tell my parents I owned them at all, let alone took them to school, because that was not JUST engaging in evil science and demon worship, but even worse, breaking the school rules.

You really need to pass sort of test before you're allowed to have kids. Parents who ban their kids from popular things for religious reasons shouldn't have them at all.

My grammar school banned the act of trading cards, but I dont think they outright banned students from having the cards.
The games themselves werent an issue because people only played the games during recess and no one was being a Karen about it.

Yep, and I think they banned Yu-Gi-Oh cards as well.

Cards were banned but I don't think Gameboys were, oddly enough

Full_Pokedex posted...

You really need to pass sort of test before you're allowed to have kids. Parents who ban their kids from popular things for religious reasons shouldn't have them at all.

As it turns out, my parents were smarter than that. They were just pissed off that I had toys at school. My sister tried to play that angle to make things worse for me but they just ignored her.

But a lot of parents weren't. There was a big fuss over Harry Potter, too.

no. they did ban marbles though, because everyone would dig holes in the soccer field to have a track or whatever to play marbles on.

I was in high school when that took off. I remember some people playing MtG and YuGiOh, but never the Pokemon card game. I can't imagine it was banned though.

Not the school itself, but my 5th grade teacher did. She was a tool lol. I remember when she tore one in half in front of the class.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Mine got confiscated on the school bus. Some jackass was mad because I wouldn't trade with him and yelled "he has Pokemon cards" so the driver literally stopped the bus and made me go give them to her. She said my parents could go pick them up.

i was thinking of a regular bus and got really confused

They weren't banned outright, but you were only allowed to have them out during lunch or recess. If they were seen during class, they got taken away until the end of the day.

They banned Pokemon. Yugioh got popular and banned that too. Gameboy/DS was banned immediately since school thought students could cheat on tests with your Gameboy color/Advance.

There was also this game called Suicide where you would throw a ball against a wall and if you caught it you got to hit every one. It probably has other names like wall ball. But our school called it Suicide and when teachers heard "we were playing suicide" they quickly banned it.

Looking back anything fun they got us to socialize with other students during recess/class got banned at school.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Gameboy/DS was banned immediately since school thought students could cheat on tests with you Gameboy color/Advance.

I mean, the DS would have been an actual concern lmao

Especially with pictochat or something

Yes and I was the main reason lol. Used to bring lots of cards and one time an asshole in my class literally betrayed me by informing our teacher and they were confiscated. Later I got them all back but was strictly told to never bring them again and I obliged. That said, I did get my revenge on that asshole later on so I was satisfied.

They banned pogs :(

Choco posted...

yall went to some dystopian ass schools

I dunno I think it makes sense. I was in early elementary school and there was like a fight every day in the schoolyard over pokemon cards. actual stealing, accusations of stealing when it didn't actually happen, damaging/tearing up cards, and even dumb stuff like kids getting into a fight about not wanting to trade cards with someone else

I guess at some point the teachers just got fed up

I don't think so, I wasn't into pokemon, but I remember playing magic at school, at least during lunch.

No, I was in HS, and they us play whatever.

wackyteen posted...

I mean, the DS would have been an actual concern lmao

Especially with pictochat or something

I was jumping between time lines. DS came after both Pokemon and Yugioh cards were popular. Pokemon was late 90s. Yugioh cards was in 2002. DS came out around 2004. With DS I was in High School. It was allowed during recess not in class. But students didn't take it out. What caused it was bullying. The seniors at my high school called people playing with Pokemon/Yugioh or DS babies and beat them up if they saw them with it.

Looking back those students should have gotten in trouble like suspended but teachers told the people getting bullied that the bullies were right they should put away your cards/DS. Around this time Pokemon/Yugioh cards kinda of decreased in popularity at my school and didn't come back. My memory is kinda off but I think 2004 might have also been the year Yugioh cards started getting banned too.

Yeah, I grew up in Las Vegas and anything with cards was seen as gambling and was quickly stopped.

I don't think they were banned ever. However a music teacher confiscated mine during middle school because she was one of those idiots that believed the news that it promoted gambling.

The game itself? Nah.
Opening packs? Okay... I concede that.

I graduated high school in 1995, so well before Pokemon even existed.

Azn_Psycho posted...

I don't think they were banned ever. However a music teacher confiscated mine during middle school because she was one of those idiots that believed the news that it promoted gambling.

The game itself? Nah.
Opening packs? Okay... I concede that.

The original loot boxes :P

I don't recall Pokemon cards but I do remember my elementary school trying to ban Pogs on the grounds that it was gambling.

Azn_Psycho posted...

I don't think they were banned ever. However a music teacher confiscated mine during middle school because she was one of those idiots that believed the news that it promoted gambling.

The game itself? Nah.
Opening packs? Okay... I concede that.

I never actually learned to play; I just wanted to collect a bunch of em. But I think I seem to remember one of the rules being that if you lose, you have to give a card over to your opponent.

I could see that being construed as gambling.

They tried to ban MTG when I was in High School citing complaints about Satanic imagery. We all got together with the principle and said we only played before school and the only people who we suspected The FCA that held their meetings at the same time in the auditorium next to the cafeteria where we played. Told him church and state yada yada yada. We resumed playing after that.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I never actually learned to play; I just wanted to collect a bunch of em. But I think I seem to remember one of the rules being that if you lose, you have to give a card over to your opponent.

I could see that being construed as gambling.

That was Magic the Gathering, and even then that rule quickly fell out of favor

DirkDiggles posted...

They tried to ban MTG when I was in High School citing complaints about Satanic imagery. We all got together with the principle and said we only played before school and the only people who we suspected The FCA that held their meetings at the same time in the auditorium next to the cafeteria where we played. Told him church and state yada yada yada. We resumed playing after that.

You know, I've never thought of it until you literally just mentioned it, but I bet a decent school principal would be positively overjoyed if a group of students formally scheduled a conference to discuss a policy.

I always saw them as dictators (note that "dictator" doesn't necessarily mean bad) but considering they actually teach civics in their own walls, something like this would be at the very least confirmation that they're doing something right.

Azn_Psycho posted...

That was Magic the Gathering, and even then that rule quickly fell out of favor

Ah ok.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

You know, I've never thought of it until you literally just mentioned it, but I bet a decent school principal would be positively overjoyed if a group of students formally scheduled a conference to discuss a policy.

I always saw them as dictators (note that "dictator" doesn't necessarily mean bad) but considering they actually teach civics in their own walls, something like this would be at the very least confirmation that they're doing something right.

He was pretty reasonable. We even showed him some of the cards. Even he said that they made it sound worse than what it actually was. I remember him saying as long as there isn't any gambling involved we will be fine. Someone retorted They got rid of the ante rule a few years back.

They confiscated "Pokey Man" cards.

Nah. Everybody was too busy trying to imitate the "____ Coast" rappers to give a fuck about card games.