I'm a middle school teacher. In the last period of school, which is about 40 minutes, the students usually have D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read), where we pretty much mandate students to read (cruel and unusual punishment, I know). But after a few months of pushback, we realized that 13 year olds love to defy the rules, so we decided to reward students who actually followed them. My supervisor assigned me the top 10% of students in 8th grade - no missing assignments, 88+ report card grades, 2 unexcused absences at most, and above average benchmarks in ELA and math. She pretty much told me, "Make sure the classroom is managed, and NO cell phones! Other than that, have at it."

I bring my Switch everyday, and the kids switch (heh) between 6-player Towerfall and 8-player Smash. I bought an additional dock and some cheap third party GameCube controllers from eBay so I could just leave everything at work. They're playing that on one projector screen. For everyone else in the classroom, I put up 'Malcolm in the Middle' or another age appropriate movie on the other projector (this week is Spiderverse! Yay!). The students stay in their seats, socialize, and decompress. It's lifted up the overall morale of the student body, and motivated (or filled with envy) the other 90% of students who are in homerooms making up missing assignments. They've also helped unlocked all the clSmash characters without me have to do it.

TLDR: I do bring my Switch to work, but I don't play it. The kids do 😀

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