City Law Keeps School from Opening Game Room

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In the United States, Ohio, a 22-year-old city law is preventing Garfield Heights High School officials from opening an arcade next to the cafeteria. The school principal and district superintendent wanted to allow air hockey and pinball games during lunch periods as an incentive for students to behave or do better in class.

But among the city's youth curfew laws is an ordinance that prohibits teens from operating "a mechanical or electrical amusement device" during a school day unless a parent is present. When it was passed in 1982, the law kept students from skipping class to play Pac-Man. School officials cancelled their plans after they learned about the law. The Garfield Heights law director says the City Council has to amend the law for the school arcade to be allowed to open.

SOURCE: Associated Press.

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