AND THAT’S WHY WE HOME EDUCATE
A quote ought to suffice here:
Rockstar, the maker of best-selling video game series “Grand Theft Auto,” said on Wednesday it would launch in October “Bully,” a game with themes of school fighting that has antiviolence critics up in arms.
The game’s main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies at a fictional U.S. boarding school called Bullworth Academy, while dealing with characters ranging from nerds and jocks to authoritarian prefects.
Weapons included baseball bats that break after several blows, stink bombs and bags of marbles that when strategically thrown will lay flat most pursuers.
…“We think the school environment is a universal experience that so many people relate to,” said Walker, who added that criticism of “Bully” is unique in that it had preceded the release of the game, which has been kept under tight wraps.
One Response to “AND THAT’S WHY WE HOME EDUCATE”
 Comment by speedwell August 11th, 2006 at 7:24 pm |
Another paragraph from the article: In March, Florida’s Miami-Dade County School Board called on retailers not to sell the game to minors and required the school district to warn parents about the potentially harmful effects of playing violent video games. So, the school board members who look the other way when bullying happens, even encourage bullies because everyone always fawns on the “alpha wolves,” want to keep the sad, downtrodden unfortunates from rising up and casting off their chains? So damn typical of school administrators. |