I went to highschool during the satanic panic years. A friend and I wanted to start an after school DnD club, we pitched it to the principal (and convinced him it was just a dice adventure game and not Satan worship), and he said yeah you can have a club, but you need a teacher to be preaent and run it.
We had mentioned it to the Music/History teacher, and he volunteered. He joined in a game to see what it was all about, but our DM was running us through something with little action so the Teacher was bored with the time between turns, but he stuck it out the whole year. He’d sit in the corner by himself reading a book, for an hour and a half to two hours, while we played DnD.
Back in the satanic panic era, we had a 7th grade math teacher that played dnd, every friday, as the class assignment. He started doing it because he said it was the best way he had found to get his classes to be able to do basic math, quickly, in their heads, with confidence. It worked.
A few years later, when I was in university, I ran into him, and his wife, at a local games shop, and we started playing dnd again, with a mutual friend we realized we both had after meeting again. It always blows my mind he got away with this, because the school he worked at was a conservative nightmare. He said they left it alone because it was really hard to find a primary school math teacher with an actual math degree, as well as academic background on teaching. So he was somewhat untouchable. The sad part was that like 1/2 the class had to hide the fact we did this from their parents.
I went to highschool during the satanic panic years. A friend and I wanted to start an after school DnD club, we pitched it to the principal (and convinced him it was just a dice adventure game and not Satan worship), and he said yeah you can have a club, but you need a teacher to be preaent and run it.
We had mentioned it to the Music/History teacher, and he volunteered. He joined in a game to see what it was all about, but our DM was running us through something with little action so the Teacher was bored with the time between turns, but he stuck it out the whole year. He’d sit in the corner by himself reading a book, for an hour and a half to two hours, while we played DnD.
What a champion.
Back in the satanic panic era, we had a 7th grade math teacher that played dnd, every friday, as the class assignment. He started doing it because he said it was the best way he had found to get his classes to be able to do basic math, quickly, in their heads, with confidence. It worked.
A few years later, when I was in university, I ran into him, and his wife, at a local games shop, and we started playing dnd again, with a mutual friend we realized we both had after meeting again. It always blows my mind he got away with this, because the school he worked at was a conservative nightmare. He said they left it alone because it was really hard to find a primary school math teacher with an actual math degree, as well as academic background on teaching. So he was somewhat untouchable. The sad part was that like 1/2 the class had to hide the fact we did this from their parents.
Wow, so amazing, and sad at the same time.