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Published: October 7, 2007, 5:12 am

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I take my hat off to this guy, he is only doing what every responsible parent or care-giver would like to do. Ok, so GameStop had to suspend him, really, but that doesn't mean he was wrong!The manager of a South Dallas branch of video game retailer GameStop has been suspended after requiring children to prove that they have good grades before allowing them to purchase games.Brandon Scott, who is married to a teacher, insisted that no school-aged customer could buy a video game from his store unless an adult confirmed that the child is getting decent results in school."He needs to be reading a book. He knows how to play Madden before he knows how to do his ABCs and 123s. That's backwards," said Scott.For the full story, from vnunet.com, click...news: games for grades comhr links for 2007-10-07 DennisDeery.comSee 0 more posts on this topic: Video Game, Teaches Nonviolent, Nonviolent Methods, Nonviolence Games, Methods InfluencingKeywords: video game, games, video,

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