Celebrating great new ideas and inventions...
If I remember correctly - and it's been a long time - my school days seemed to lurch from one fad or craze to the next, that emerged from nowhere and ran for a few weeks, before inevitably being banned after things ended in tears, usually because of loss, theft, arguments or some perceived health hazard (probably along the lines of "if somebody were to swallow that..." or "you could have someone's eye out..."). And if my kids' school is typical, nothing much has changed. There always seems to be something new that they have to collect and trade. Recently it was elastic bands in the shapes of different animals. Currently it is creature shaped erasers. I don't know what they do with them, but I do know that I've spent two successive weekends trawling around different stationers' looking for rubbers that no one else at school would have yet.
