Nine-Year Old boy saves Pokemon TCG

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    JalordaSerpent7 here!
    I was reading on Bulbapedia and I found an article that is quite interesting. It is about a nine year old boy arguing over the fact that Pokemon is educational! I like his letter. The article is right here:
    As we said earlier, Pokémon is not just about the anime or game but it is educational as well. And few days ago, a third-grader and a nine-year-old boy named Lucas Ayala proved it.
    The nine-year-old boy named Lucas Ayala who lives in Woodside, Queens made his teacher realize that Pokémon is educational. Queens school banned the Pokémon Trading Card Game for their students which made this third-grader angry and left no choice for him but to write a letter to his teacher, Jennifer Toti.
    Surprisingly, it inspired his teacher greatly and changed the school authority's vision towards Lucas's favorite card game and made them believe that Pokémon is not just about the game but it is educational as well.
    In the letter, Lucas Ayala explained to his teacher that Pokémon Trading Card Game - which features a deck of 60 cards and dice - taught him about mathematical calculations including addition, subtraction and multiplication. Upon further explanation, he suggested that it could also be used in Mathematics classes in the school.
    To further support his request, he cheekily signed off his letter by saying:
    「Even if you can't, you are still a great teacher!」
    The letter was well-applauded by the entire school authority and staff members. After reading the letter, Jennifer Toti's response was:
    「It made me laugh. We teach the students they can use words for good, and if you use them the right way, you can change the world. He applied that to something that was important to him.」
    Queens schools's assistant principal Dr. Richard Welles said:
    「I knew nothing about Pokémon. But I did some research and it confirmed what Lucas said. There's a great deal that's mathematical about it ... so I wrote to the staff saying that we can, under certain circumstances, promote it.」
    During the recess time and in some Mathematics classes, the ban on Pokémon Trading Card Game was lifted at the elementary school. All thanks to Lucas's well-crafted, handwritten argument which also turned Lucas into a mini-star among students.
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    Credit to Bulbapedia for this article.

    -JalordaSerpent7
     
    I remember when my elementary school banned Pokemon and anything Gameboy related (of course it was private school; they disliked the evolution portion of it). I was not that happy but my grandmother was the school nurse so i would stop there after school and play it before we headed over to her house. I was one of the only students with immediate access to Pokemon when school was over. Just thought I would leave some decent feedback
     
    I don't understand why they would have an issue with the evolution part of it, these pokemon are just going through stages like metamorphosis not actual evolution. I'm a Christian who doesn't believe in evolution and I'm fine with it, that private school needs to get a spine. I went to a private school for camp for about seven years, they were very Christian, and all they did was play pokemon.
     
    I think it's pretty epic that a kid convinced the entire school to allow Pokemon. :)
     
    Wow, that kid must be very smart to convince his school to let Pokemon back in. After all, Pokemon involves some form of math (both the TCG and in the video games).
     
    Math in the video games yes there is math in the video games. Calculations of how much your pokemon will do. EV training etc. percent chances of obtaining an item on a wild pokemon.
     
    aspie3000 said:
    I don't understand why they would have an issue with the evolution part of it, these pokemon are just going through stages like metamorphosis not actual evolution. I'm a Christian who doesn't believe in evolution and I'm fine with it, that private school needs to get a spine. I went to a private school for camp for about seven years, they were very Christian, and all they did was play pokemon.
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    It's not just private schools though, my grade school banned the card game during school hours *including recess,* as it was a game and there were alot of thefts/kids being distracted by the cards and not paying attention to class.

    Afterschool or before school was a different matter, and they didn't care as long as you were either out of the building or in an afterschool program under supervision.

    The Gameboys were also banned...due to them being video games and therefore not school related.
     
    I'm majoring in elementary education actually. If at all possible, I would love to incorporate the TCG with a math lesson someday. And it's not only math, it's a logic game. Makes you to think about what you're doing, which is something I really enjoyed as a kid. I wish that someone had been creative enough to try to help me with my math by using the TCG as an example, because I was always bad at math. This would have really been nice. Makes me wanna play now from just thinking about it! But no one's here to play. Could battle myself, I reckon...
     
    I remember when Pokemon got banned at my grade school because me and some friends opened up a " Pokemon Black Market" so to say around the school. Made over $50, if you include the price of obtaining merchandise. Back then, that was serious dough.
     
    Pokemon in all my schools except for the one I'm in currently. Anyway, great article that shows how young pepole can change things.
     
    I'm surprised that the card game is still popular in enough places to ban it. :x I don't think it's been popular in my area since I got out of it, way back in 6th grade or so. Yu-Gi-Oh took over by the time my brother left elementary school and then I didn't know anyone in that age bracket so I have no idea what they're into, haha.

    Anyway, when I was a kid, Pokémon was very nearly banned but it never quite was. Pogs were banned, but not PKMN Cards for some dumb reason. XD; No one ever had issues with pogs but with the TCG, I know people would get their holos stolen, or older kids would rip off the younger kids with bad trades. On that alone I can see the appeal in banning it, but not for evolution like some people said. :( I always thought that argument was dumb.

    Anyway, good for this kid. :3 I think a lot of schools would be more successful if teachers actively tried to engage their students by tying their interests into the curriculum so it's nice to see an example being set.
     
    if only i could do that at my anal school
     
    Awesome! Props to the kid. I went to a catholic school and Pokemon was outright banned. I remember standing in front of the class arguing with my teacher about it.
     
    It was banned at my primary school because some stupid kids kept stealing cards and the figurines, ruined it for everyone. But we had a day once a term, as a class treat, where we could bring 'electronic equipment' hahaa. So out came all the gameboys and our treasured copies of r/b/y. After they banned the TCG, I don't think Pokemon ever made a comeback at my tiny school. :(
     
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