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Good morning - true to a promise I have made a group of students, I am
investigating a feeling I have that there is considerable controversy
surrounding the playing of the "Magic: The Gathering" card game.
I searched EbscoHost and found several articles extolling the development of
this game from a "young entrepreneurial" stand point.
One article I found focused on the efforts of groups ("Association Against
the Seduction of Children", "Christian Coalition" and "Concerned Women for
America") efforts to ban these cards in schools ascribing Satanic influences
to the game.
From what I've seen of my guys, so far, it appears a strategy game similar
(to my non-chess experience) to chess. (And I'd allow chess - probably
because I think of it as intellectual.) These boys have been quiet and
polite and do not abuse the circumstance.
However, we do have a no card playing rule in the handbook. Does this
constitute card playing?
If you'd care to respond, I'm looking for some insight. The boys feel that
they'd like to form a club (like the chess club) and want to do their
homework. (Or maybe, as sometimes happens, they're getting me to do it for
them? - she say's ruefully...) - or their using my efforts to be fair and
open-minded...
TIA
Julie Hulten
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Julie Hulten, Library Media Specialist
Mark T. Sheehan High School
142 Hope Hill Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
203-294-5940
203-294-5983 (fax)
jhulten@wallingford.k12.ct.us
http://www.wallingford.k12.ct.us/WlfdlWeb/Mts_lmc
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Julie Hulten, Library Media Specialist
Mark T. Sheehan High School
142 Hope Hill Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
203-294-5940
203-294-5983 (fax)
jhulten@wallingford.k12.ct.us
http://www.wallingford.k12.ct.us/WlfdlWeb/Mts_lmc
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