Banned! Stuff that was banned when you were a kid.

hmmmm, can't really think of anything that wasn't mentioned. that's noteworthy.

actually, no, 3-ring binders or trapper keepers were "soft banned" as in a teacher would tell you you're not supposed to have them, but no one cared. this was elementary school. probably soft banned because kids are dumb and would get their fingers bit by the things or something.
 
Nothing really outright banned when I was a kid, but I will share some stories anyway.
Before I went to Catholic school I had to take Cathechism once a week. One night I brought in a VHS copy of the 70's version of Jesus Christ Superstar (a.k.a. the only version worth watching). My teachers didn't want to show us such a "wicked" film (this was 1996 BTW). One teacher said "well, we could watch it and see just how bad Hollywood is".

In grade 5, a student was either playing with his tamagotchi, or just had it in his desk (I never found out what exactly he did), but the teacher saw it, took it, and threw it clear across the classroom against the wall then screamed at the kid asking how much it cost. When he said $20 she screamed that he could have fed a starving family with $20. In hindsight she reminids me of the "god warrior" from Trading Spouses.
 
My parents were pretty libertarian, as long as it wasn't porn and I don't repeat the naughty words on tv, they were cool.


At school a couple of the dumber things: Pokemon cards, red rover, baseball caps, snowball fights,
Middle school: carrying your backpack between classes, you have to raise your hand before throwing away your lunch tray
 
In the elementary school I went to, students could bring their gameboy on the last day before a break. Unfortunately, the school decided to ban those since one student had either lost his or stolen off him. So, to prevent complaints and future losses, the school would make sure that no students would bring them. Yu-Gi-Oh cards were another thing since some student's could steal them. When we were allowed to wear regular clothes on said last day before a break, shirts with team logo's were forbidden because it was like gang affiliation or something (I bet it could have something to do with rabid sports fans.)
 
When I was in high school I was banned. Kicked out in grade 10. Thus began a new chapter in the saga of @klystron
 
Oh, I forgot, PDA was banned. Personal Displays of Affection. Now this made sense in a way because everyone would stand around after the bell making out and poking each other with boners, but I remember a few occasions when the teachers enforced it quite meanly. I remember there was a girl who's dog died over the weekend and people were giving her comforting hugs, everyone involved was bann. Kinda messed up
 
[Adult Swim] anything was banned and I got in big trouble for drawing characters from it. Yet, somehow we had Harold Robbins books in our library?
 
Red_Rager dijo:
My parents were pretty libertarian, as long as it wasn't porn and I don't repeat the naughty words on tv, they were cool.
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my parents were exactly the same way. I watched "Predator" with my Dad when I was 6 and was surprised when the other kids in my 1st Grade class had never heard of it. One girl thought I meant that movie "Prancer".
 
Not my school but pogs , red rover ( kinda like British bulldog ) and a few other school yard games got banned. Red rover was because a kid broke his leg while playing it.
 
It's amazing how many mentions Pokemon gets, the whole Pokemon thing hit over here just as I left school so I never experienced the full insanity of it.

Ok, here's one for the folk in the UK: Remember "Trip to Eclipse" jackets from the early-mid 90's? They were banned at my high school because they apparently promoted drug abuse, and as we all know, the best way to prevent kids from doing stuff is to specifically forbid them! (lol)

All they achieved was pissing off parents who'd just bought their kids a pricey jacket to wear to school for the new term, and also managed to draw far more attention to the more edgy nature of the logo than it would have got on it's own .
 
Red rover and this game called grounders was banned in my elementary school. I don't recall anything being banned in middle school or high school though except for sunflower seeds and gum because people would be littering with them.
 
Duct tape is banned in the school I go to right now, though the ban is district-wide. The decision to ban it was made when some dicks decided it would be real funny to tie up some poor kid outside, in the middle of winter.

Edit: And when I say "tie up", I meant that they taped him to a tree with duct tape.
 
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trench coats, because they're way too cool and there were these two 2edgy kids that went down in history.

as for things that really didn't deserve to be banned, i propose that retards that ruing cool things for everyone else get banned. now where's that good onion article. i love the onion, they report what we're all thinking under the pretense of comedy (many a truth is spoken in jest)
 
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Duct tape is banned in the school I go to right now, though the ban is district-wide. The decision to ban it was made when some dicks decided it would be real funny to tie up some poor kid outside, in the middle of winter.

Edit: And when I say "tie up", I meant that they taped him to a tree with duct tape.
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In that case we better ban scarves, scotched tape, and string as well since you can do the same thing as well.
 
Muncie Anderson dijo:
Jumping ahead to my senior year in high school (1994-95), if anyone was caught carrying around a pager, it was an automatic three to five day suspension from school. The belief was, the deans and other administrators would assume if you had a pager, you were selling drugs. Never mind that someone might need to get ahold of you during the day for a genuine emergency.
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I remember in imddle school our assistant principal got a kid's *fancy very cool for 1995* purple pager during lunch, and put it in his pocket, with the clip showing. Everybody joked on the kid, "Levon! Mr. Eaton's sporting your pager!"

I remember freshman year this girl who had a little kid was allowed to have a pager. Someone fucking stole it.

A while back I did some reading up about the whole trench coat mafia myth for an entry in my history blog. Along with people buying into that myth that trench coats = school shooting, some schools also banned them because it was easier for kids to hide stuff in long trench coats.

The real trench coat mafia at Columbine was a bunch of gamer kids. Some kid in the days after was like, "OH. Eric & Dylan was wearing trench coats, then they must of been in the trench coat mafia and everybody in the group must of wanted to kill kids too!"
 
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