Preschool bans “monster games”
A Pennsylvania preschool has banned “superhero play” and “monster games” to calm its students’ “dangerously overactive’’ imaginations. The school also advised parents to monitor the media their children consume. “My son came home and told me make-believe was not allowed at school anymore,” said one outraged parent.
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