UK Schools Threaten To Contact Police Over Kids Playing M Rated Games

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I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems like the police and social services have more pressing issues to deal with besides kids playing mature rated games?

Headteachers have warned parents that they will report them to the police and social services for neglect if they allow their children to play computer games rated for over-18s. The warning was issued by the Nantwich Education Partnership, a group of 15 primary schools and one secondary academy in Cheshire, after it was discovered that some children had been playing or watching games that contain unsuitable levels of violence and sexual content.
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By the time I was their age my friends and I already had a huge porn trading ring going in our school, stacks of 3.5" floppies wrapped in rubber bands being passed from kid to kid every day.
 
Well it's good to know I can still let my kid watch adult TV shows and movies and not get reported to social services! :D
 
happens when you're a subject and the government owns you. :p
 
Typical "Guardian" story........... Let them report me & my wife for allowing my step daughter to watch age rated films or play video games! I wonder what sentence I would get for sticking the visitors heads up their own arses?
 
I wouldn't mind stricter enforcement of these things.

Firstly content in these games is highly inappropriate for kids, due to the highly violent and sexualized content.

Primarily - however - my motivation is that I'd love to be able to hop in on an online game and play with other adults.

Nothings more depressing than hearing a voice that hasn't even gone through puberty yet on the other end of that headset.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041517221 said:
I wouldn't mind stricter enforcement of these things.
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Can't you mute players? And parents have a right to decide what their kids can watch and play; that shouldn't be up to the state.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041517221 said:
I wouldn't mind stricter enforcement of these things.

Firstly content in these games is highly inappropriate for kids, due to the highly violent and sexualized content.

Primarily - however - my motivation is that I'd love to be able to hop in on an online game and play with other adults.

Nothings more depressing than hearing a voice that hasn't even gone through puberty yet on the other end of that headset.
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I would mind. I bought HL1 when it released when I was 9, I don't have nightmares and the need to run around hitting things with a crowbar. I am pretty level headed and I would think it is because of what I was exposed to when I was younger. I wasn't sheltered by any means and had an excellent child hood. I say NO to the state keeping me from giving my kids what I had for a childhood.
 
I don't care if level-headed kids play mature games and are not influenced by them. That's how I grew up. I think the underlying issue behind this is that kids are talking about it at school with their peers. Especially since graphic realism in video games is above and beyond what was available 10-15 years ago, kids glorifying violent acts and possibly reenacting them in the schoolyard would have me a little concerned.

Boobs though? Boobs are fine. Carry on. Sex ed should be taught to kids before they hit puberty so they can make informed decisions about what they see and do.
 
Silly tabloid sounding story. It would be pointless reporting them to the Police as it is not illegal to buy an M rated game. That is an ADVISORY system, not a legal one.

This sounds like the standard case of trying to pass the buck of responsibility again. Parents blame teachers who blame parents
 
BlueMeanie said:
Silly tabloid sounding story. It would be pointless reporting them to the Police as it is not illegal to buy an M rated game. That is an ADVISORY system, not a legal one.

This sounds like the standard case of trying to pass the buck of responsibility again. Parents blame teachers who blame parents
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This is UK. Under their law, it's up to 6months and £5000.
 
w4ffles said:
kids glorifying violent acts and possibly reenacting them in the schoolyard would have me a little concerned.
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"Lets go steal a helicopter and hang out the side firing rocket launchers at tanks like in GTA5!" met with a peer response, "Naw man, we should totally fly to space and fight aliens with mech suits that have chain saws!"

G'damn kids reenacting video games at skewl! :p
 
Hey parents! If you don't do your job the way I want you to, I'm going to tell mom!
 
Haven't you all heard: there are no more rapes, murders, robberies, cases of vandalism, etc. in the UK. None. It has become a complete paradise. Thus, the police have time to deal with children playing M-rated games.
 
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