Third Grade Memory

I just made a forum post elsewhere and realized that I should push this "third grade memory" of mine out here as well. Don't worry about the context.

In like third grade, in the winter, after school, before heading home, we'd go over to the church. Lots of low, curved walls with snow on top there. We'd sketch buttons and screens and stuff into the top of those walls and we'd play out some Star Trek re-run from the night before. Someone was Kirk and someone was Scotty and so on. We decided on the fly what we could and could not do and what would happen. We did this for about thirty minutes to an hour, then went home for lunch and homework and comics and stuff. When we played next, a day or two later, we'd keep some of the decisions we made before, others we redid, new episodes added new information, etc. Nobody wrote any of that down despite us having a grand old time for weeks of school.

Plenty here that sort of dates this of course. Kids these days don't seem to get out of school around lunchtime anymore, instead they are forced to do "pedagogically sound" stuff that others thought up for them in the afternoon. And if that wasn't sad enough, if one of them would actually complain about not liking those "well-designed exercises" they'd get some kids-level psychoanalysis next week. Oh well, I guess it's progress?