Call of Duty in Special Needs School Sparks Complaint
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Nope. America's M rating is the equivalent to Australia's non-existent 18+ rating. Except 17+. Huh.XinfiniteX said:lacktheknack said:
I live in Australia... I just assumed it was the same as here.
the video on the link said that they were fighting it since September.Woodsey said:
That reporting was terrible though. Call of Duty 4 gameplay=Black Ops?
And if they were playing black ops, maybe he was playing Zork/Dead ops?
Sad though, video games will be blamed when the school was in the wrong.
Yeah, but maybe he was just having a shit week.Dexiro said:
Maybe he woke up too early.
Maybe he didn't like the taste of his breakfast.
Maybe someone's been annoying him.
Maybe he crapped himself and Kevin Bacon flew out of his arse.
It could be anything.
Maybe his sister is annoying him.
Oh, you son of a *****!cairocat said:
OT: This is on the school. These kids have varying degrees mental, social, and emotional problems, giving them an M game like Call of Duty was not a smart idea on their part. It would have been reasonable if the parents were informed of this or had to sign a permission slip or something, but I can sympathize with the parents here, the school did a dumb.
That's only because she's been spawn camping him.Woodsey said:
But, yeah, developmental disabilities can indicate that an emotional state like this will hang on for much longer than it would with a normal individual.
On topic it sounds like this kid was just a poor fit with the program, but, I don't know for certain that that was all it was.
Sometimes people will act violently not because they play a violent video game but because they suck at it. That's the way it goes because no one likes losing. If you win you experience a short burst of happiness. Of course if you're dealing with a mentally problematic person you can never know for sure what to expect from them no matter what activity is in question.
A big part of that is because major retailers will not stock AO titles. So the developers self censor.Enigmers said:
Xfinitive, the American film ratings are G, PG, PG-13, R (no one under 18 without supervision), and NC-17 (no children, regardless of parents). X used to be a legitimate MPAA rating, but I'm not sure it is anymore.
Games are, I think, E (everyone), E-10 (everyone over 10), T (teen I forget the age range), M (mature, which I thought was 18 and up, but shows what I remember), and AO, which is Adults Only, and as I mentioned earlier, never gets stocked by most retailers.
EDIT: It's probably worth pointing out that the ESRB and the MPAA are both trade groups, so unlike in Oz, there's no legislative mandate for everything to be rated.
Even if these were general education students we were talking about, a school shouldn't have its students playing M-rated games without parental consent. The fact that this is a special needs kid we're talking about, who may have difficulty with the concept of "just a game", just goes to show that the teachers/administrators allowing this are a special kind of stupid.
