Not all kids would just accept this and go on as normal. Look what happens if you back a perfectly nice animal into a corner. There is a very good chance that it will become frightened and agressive. Granted, the analogy isn't perfect but it will work.
I know that if this was implemented when I was in high school (3 years ago) I would have not gone along with it without one hell of a fight. This system would have turned me into a trouble maker instead of a easy going student. There are bounds as to how much control can be had on minors. It is true that they aren't adults yet, but that doesn't mean that they can't think for themselves or that they need to be watched 24/7.
A much better system would be if a student did not show up for school one day, send a letter to the students parents at work where it could not be intercepted by the student, and then let the parent / student work it out.
For some reason I have always wanted one of the trucks with the rail road track wheels on them. This may be cool too. Although I have no idea where I would ever use them, except for my plan of holding a family sedan off road challenge (nothing like mud running in a chevy cavileir, oooh yeah).
However, every monster truck competetion I have ever seen on tv that had a truck fitted with tracks always lost by a long shot, so maybe I should stick with really big tires.
My friend has a dreamcast and I have played it on a couple of occasions. I will admit that dreamcast does have some good games to their name (most notably Jet Set (Grind) Radio, Crazy Taxi and Chu Chu Rocket (which can be picked up amazing cheap for such a great game btw)), but that large majority of what I have seen isn't all that impressive.
Take for example Sonic the Hedgehog in his miraculous new 3d world. It looks pretty watching the beautiful scenery flash by as the cruze through the level, but the fact remains that for the majority of the game you are confined to a single track which you can't deviate from. Now compare this to Mario64 where you have almost complete freedom in this 3d world and can walk, fly, run anywhere you please. The graphics don't come close to comparing with sonic on the dreamcast, but it easily makes up for that, and then some, in game play.
I am not argueing the fact that there are fun games on other systems, and in a few years when the prices drop I will probably buy a dreamcast for the games mentioned above and probably a few others. However, I will keep my main game playing on nintendo systems until the other competetors realize that there is more to making a good game than graphics.
The only reason I will be sticking to nintendo is game play. Nintendo has a lot of fun original multiplayer games like mario kart, mario party, goldeneye, perfect dark, super smash brothers, etc.. I have yet to see anything compare to these on the playstation or dreamcast lines. Sure, the graphics may not be life like, but you know what? who gives a shit. If I want amazing graphics I'll watch a movie or go for a walk.
Granted I haven't played many of the newer games on the ps2, so this may have changed, but I am sick to death of games that have "awesome mindblowing graphics" achieved through full motion video. Who wants to sit in the middle of a game and watch a movie?
I am looking for games that I can play with and against friends. All of the different rip-offs of super street fighter (or whatever you hard-core gamers claim to be the first person vs person fighter) get boring quickly. I don't have time to memorize all the moves of 150 different characters with 30 moves per character just to properly play a game. This is why smash brothers is so fun, all the characters moves are done exactly the same way (direction + 1 button). It is simple and fun.
Until I can find a system that focuses on game play more than graphics better than nintendo does, I will be sticking with nintendo.
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Not all kids would just accept this and go on as normal. Look what happens if you back a perfectly nice animal into a corner. There is a very good chance that it will become frightened and agressive. Granted, the analogy isn't perfect but it will work.
I know that if this was implemented when I was in high school (3 years ago) I would have not gone along with it without one hell of a fight. This system would have turned me into a trouble maker instead of a easy going student. There are bounds as to how much control can be had on minors. It is true that they aren't adults yet, but that doesn't mean that they can't think for themselves or that they need to be watched 24/7.
A much better system would be if a student did not show up for school one day, send a letter to the students parents at work where it could not be intercepted by the student, and then let the parent / student work it out.
For some reason I have always wanted one of the trucks with the rail road track wheels on them. This may be cool too. Although I have no idea where I would ever use them, except for my plan of holding a family sedan off road challenge (nothing like mud running in a chevy cavileir, oooh yeah).
However, every monster truck competetion I have ever seen on tv that had a truck fitted with tracks always lost by a long shot, so maybe I should stick with really big tires.
My friend has a dreamcast and I have played it on a couple of occasions. I will admit that dreamcast does have some good games to their name (most notably Jet Set (Grind) Radio, Crazy Taxi and Chu Chu Rocket (which can be picked up amazing cheap for such a great game btw)), but that large majority of what I have seen isn't all that impressive.
Take for example Sonic the Hedgehog in his miraculous new 3d world. It looks pretty watching the beautiful scenery flash by as the cruze through the level, but the fact remains that for the majority of the game you are confined to a single track which you can't deviate from. Now compare this to Mario64 where you have almost complete freedom in this 3d world and can walk, fly, run anywhere you please. The graphics don't come close to comparing with sonic on the dreamcast, but it easily makes up for that, and then some, in game play.
I am not argueing the fact that there are fun games on other systems, and in a few years when the prices drop I will probably buy a dreamcast for the games mentioned above and probably a few others. However, I will keep my main game playing on nintendo systems until the other competetors realize that there is more to making a good game than graphics.
The only reason I will be sticking to nintendo is game play. Nintendo has a lot of fun original multiplayer games like mario kart, mario party, goldeneye, perfect dark, super smash brothers, etc.. I have yet to see anything compare to these on the playstation or dreamcast lines. Sure, the graphics may not be life like, but you know what? who gives a shit. If I want amazing graphics I'll watch a movie or go for a walk.
Granted I haven't played many of the newer games on the ps2, so this may have changed, but I am sick to death of games that have "awesome mindblowing graphics" achieved through full motion video. Who wants to sit in the middle of a game and watch a movie?
I am looking for games that I can play with and against friends. All of the different rip-offs of super street fighter (or whatever you hard-core gamers claim to be the first person vs person fighter) get boring quickly. I don't have time to memorize all the moves of 150 different characters with 30 moves per character just to properly play a game. This is why smash brothers is so fun, all the characters moves are done exactly the same way (direction + 1 button). It is simple and fun.
Until I can find a system that focuses on game play more than graphics better than nintendo does, I will be sticking with nintendo.