Have you ever brought a handheld to school?

[tangoprime]

The school district where I work has a Bring-Your-Own-Device wifi network and protocol for students to sign in using their student ID so we can track and filter. These kids bring ALL the handheld devices, and tablets, and laptops. I really wish my school growing up was more like the one where I work now, and less like the movie Dangerous Minds or The Substitute.

 

[Robert Marrs]

i had in the past but it always made me extremely paranoid. i was constantly worried about it getting taken away by the teacher or getting stolen.

 

[WWWLUCIFERCOM]

Yeah sure back in the late 90s I'd bring my gameboy to school and play pokemon with my friends.

 

[Nymi]

I suppose I could've brought my Gameboy (The original grey brick) with me to school, but I never did. We spent all breaks playing football anyway, so there was no point.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I actually don't remember, I probably did though. It's not like I had anything better to do on the bus than play Pokémon.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

No, I'm pretty sure they'd confiscate that shit if they caught you with it and I'm pretty sure you weren't allowed to bring your mobile's into my school either. In my primary school they even banned Pokemon cards so from a young age it was kind of ingrained in me that nothing fun was permitted within school grounds. Really though even if that weren't the case it didn't seem worth the risk to me, I didn't want my Gameboy/PSP to get stolen or broken, especially after I managed to crack the screen of my phone when I brought it into school once. It might have been useful to have around in sixth form, but up until that point I had like an hour and a half of free time during the school day that I could of used to play the thing that I'd normally be too busy spending hanging around with friends and I wasn't so impatient that I couldn't just wait til the end of the day to play it without running the risk of it getting lost/broke/stolen and whatnot.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Yes, but I was also in university at the time. Heck I've also brought my gaming laptop to school at times if I knew I was going to have a long break that day and wanted to watch a movie or play a few games between classes. That said it was pretty infrequent and I usually brought a book over a either device most days. That or actually studied/worked during my breaks.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Very rarely back in my elementary and high school days. Once in a while I would for various reasons.

Now in college, I bring my 3DS with me almost everyday. Either to play games or get street passes, I go everywhere with it.

 

[Drakmorg]

All the flippin' time. I got really cocky about it back in Middle School when I'd play on my GBA and DS in the middle of class. Only got me stuff confiscated once though, funnily enough. And even got off easy from that too. After that in High School I also brought them, but only to play during lunch periods or slow days in classes where the teachers didn't give a fuck, so I guess I basically learned my lesson.

 

[Fijiman]

Of course, several times in fact. Although, due to the release of the DS and my waning interest in Nintendo games I didn't play with my GBA a lot in high school.

 

[nyankaty]

Oh yes. Yes yes yes. I had a Gameboy Color that I brought to middle school with me basically every day. My friends followed suit and we would have silent wars over who had the best GBC - I had the clear purple, a friend had the neon green, and another friend had the opaque purple. I didn't care whose was best, I just could not get enough LoZ: Link's Awakening DX. Yes.

I didn't have another handheld until around...oh, age 20 or so when I bought a secondhand first gen Nintendo DS despite playing the everliving out of my GBCs (I ended up with two or three of them, inherited from friends and relatives who no longer wanted them, as well as a beautiful dark metallic blue classic GameBoy.) I would have never brought a handheld to high school though because I was always talking to friends, reading, drawing, or studying. Had no time for gaming at school.

 

[MorganL4]

When I was in elementary school we all brought our Gameboy colors to school so we could play Pokemon and trade/battle. They didn't have them banned or anything until I was in 6th grade, which being 3 years later meant that my Pokemon phase had ended anyway.

 

[Zeraki]

Nope, I had a Game Boy Color but when I went to school I just left it home. Schools were a lot more strict about having electronics back then, so there was a risk of it getting taken away by a teacher(not to mention the risk of it getting stolen). By the time I got into High School I didn't really use my GBC anymore, so I never brought it there either.

 

[Varrdy]

Being an old(ish) fart, my handheld of choice when I was at School was the original Nintendo GameBoy. Sadly, many of the morons I was forced to share my school-time with thought the most hilarious thing in the world would be to keep on turning it off (or at least try to turn it off) while I was playing.

 

[kasperbbs]

Never owned a hanheld.. But i did play games on my Sony Walkman something phone during breaks/classes. And now i'm playing tekken 6 on my phone at work..

 

[Poetic Nova]

I still do, and i'm a college-goer. Granted it has a R4 card in it with a wholel ot of music and some emulator's but still. And since I can't do concentrate well without music, I don't leave the house without it.

 

[Keiichi Morisato]

i regularly take my handhelds to school with me, as they are great time wasters between college classes.

 

[NearLifeExperience]

I used to bring my gameboys everywhere, and why not? Isn't that the whole point of a handheld?

 

[Spider RedNight]

Ahhhhh, I remember the halcyon days of taking my gameboy to school to play Hamtaro or my DS to play Animal Crossing and Nintendogs... so yes, I took my handhelds to school but it wasn't ever anything violent or combat heavy so there was lots of room for flexibility for when I actually had to listen. Furthermore, I really only played games in the classes I knew I was doing well in; even my addiction to video games never hindered my ability to learn... except for physics. I'll NEVER be good at physics and no amount of Portal or studying can fix that.

. . . I played a whole lot of Nintendogs in English class.

 

[EHKOS]

Once brought my new PSP to school, started playing Daxter at lunch. One of the high school lunch monitors came up and in an overly stern voice said "Put it away. Now." One of the very few times the risk of losing something valuable overcame my problem with authority.

I was at lunch. Complete bullshit. It was on the principal's orders too. No one could have an MP3 player either.