Reports say that about 10 middle and elementary schools in Osaka will start handing out Nintendo DS consoles to students next January. Nintendoās plan to control the world: 80% complete.
The Osaka Board of Education signed off on the measure, according to Japanator, potentially restoring my faith in public education systems. Students will use āeducation softwareā to further their school studies; and by āeducation software,ā I assume they mean Brain Age and not Cooking Mama.
The DSās appearance in Japanese classrooms is nothing new. Back in 2006, Kyoto Prefectureās Yawata City had students spend the first ten minutes of class, studying vocab on their Nintendo portables. As of 2009, the prefecture was still using the DS for study.
Maybe every DS taxes buy for a school child will be 100 yen Nintendo puts toward making games that donāt suck.
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