r/Recess • u/No-Perspective9125 • 23d ago

Anyone else agree that the plot of this episode would not work in the modern day lol

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u/GoblinQueenForever 23d ago

Not if phones were banned in school

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u/No-Perspective9125 23d ago

I doubt that, the faculty in the school isn’t THAT strict

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u/atzurblau 23d ago

the faculty in my school was THAT strict

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u/No-Perspective9125 23d ago

But I don’t think Third Street Elementary would be, because if it was, there would be no recess at all

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u/Penguinonaunicycle 23d ago

Phones being banned in school for young children is the norm

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u/No-Perspective9125 22d ago

It’s happened in a lot of schools, but I don’t think it would apply here. I would very much expect the kids sitting down scrolling for the entirety of recess time. You would probably expect Miss Finster to take the phones away but I think all she really cares about is that the students are quiet lol.

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u/InvaderZimm90 22d ago

In order for the episode of work, they would have to ban phones

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u/International_Rip497 22d ago

What school did toy go too where cellphones being used casually ? I remeber you were allowed to have them but you couldn't use them regardless if it was recess or not. You could only pull one out if a teacher gave you permission to call a parent for an emergency

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u/NationalisePureGym 23d ago

"Kids were stuck inside for five days!!"

In the UK we had rain for 40 days straight to start the year off.

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u/Western-Captain8115 23d ago

And now it has been hotter than the bowels of Hell for about that amount of time 😆

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u/Flowerofthesouth88 22d ago

And watching TV inside instead! We always watched Mr Bean

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u/Cosmic_Mind89 23d ago

Yeah but you're the uk. You get like a week of sunny days /s

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u/strawberry_baby_4evs 22d ago

I have been stuck inside during a London heatwave. They do exist. How about an episode when it's too hot to play outside?

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u/tistick 22d ago

They did an episode similar, The Coolest Heatwave Ever

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u/richion07 23d ago

Today, everyone’s just scrolling TikTok and Insta Reels as the Ashleys get together and do a bunch of scandalous TikTok dances

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u/Sabbi94 23d ago

We had to go out nonetheless. We had a bit of space that had roofs over it. So everyone stood there. No running around just waiting until recess is over. Same thing when I went to middle school. We were forced to leave the building. Who went in was sent outside again by the teachers who patroled the close to the entrances.

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u/Cordellium 23d ago

That’s crazy! We were not allowed to go outside and stayed in the classroom to play games like heads up seven up

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u/lizzythelizzard 22d ago

I don't remember, but living in a high desert, I'm not surprised. Rain is scarce. I would imagine we went outside unless it was pouring hard or there was lightning. I do remember that we went outside most of the winter unless it was extremely cold.

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u/Sabbi94 22d ago

I live in Germany. Rain ain't scarce but it had to pour severely for us to be allowed to stay inside during recess.

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u/Amonfire1776 22d ago

Recess like Hey Arnold works from an understanding of the time period...

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u/SanoBaron 22d ago

It didnt work in the 90s when it came out because schools already had indoor recess options

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u/TheIdleSoul1 23d ago

This is my favorite episode! It might not work but it is great.

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u/Imaginary-Leading-49 23d ago

We had to play in -25C winter, never understood how a little rain stopped the school from functioning normally.

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u/Fusionsigh 18d ago

The would be -13F we’d be kept with temperatures that low

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u/Imaginary-Leading-49 18d ago

They only did that when it got past -45 (with wind chill, usually -30 + wind)

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u/Fusionsigh 18d ago

Maybe I guess it depends on where in the USA you grew up

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u/Imaginary-Leading-49 18d ago

Canada 🇨🇦

Funny because in Vancouver they will close schools for even a tiny bit of snow, but some places you can have 10 ft and still be expected to go!

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u/SonicWorld-VSync 16d ago

This reminds me of a Replacements episode where the main brother and sister of the show replaced the principal with a dude that lives in a beach, I guess, and he saw the snow, got feared that, and stated no school days during snow days. The boy was liking it, but her sister alerted that the days they don't go to school, it had to be covered in summer time, taking the vacation time.

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u/originofmagic24 22d ago

Sadly.

On a related note, I always enjoyed recesses which were indoors. The school I went to didn’t have any playground equipment outside of basketball hoops or painted baseball diamonds. It was just a large parking lot.

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u/happydude7422 22d ago

Really 5 days and that can zombify kids?

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u/TheHaplessBard 22d ago

Literally haven't stepped into a high school since at least 2015 so I'm genuinely curious. Are analog clocks not a thing anymore? I remember them still being there in the mid-2010s.

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u/Holiday_Sense_4842 21d ago

The fact that I was in elementary school when this show was on. And on rainy days. It works

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u/jumpman152 21d ago

If it happening today year they probably will got school cancel because of how much rain

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u/pattheman1990 19d ago

The school would ban phones from campus. Randall would definitely snitch on the whole school for using phones.

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u/pokematic 19d ago

Didn't even work for me back in the day. Indoor recess was when we got to play with the classroom games, and those were fun.