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.
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.